Love is both the reason for grief and the salve to soothe grief. What a smart design! When we open to love, we can’t avoid grief, but we also can’t avoid healing and transformation and the gentle softening of our grief into more love. Grief isn’t a toxin that needs to be purged out of…
Three Precious Words For Grievers & The People Supporting Them
Yes. You can say you don’t know. In fact, please be willing to admit that when it comes to the mysteries of life and death and grief there’s so much you don’t know! Your beloved died suddenly and you don’t know know what to make of it. You don’t know what death was like for them,…
Finding The Serendipity In Life’s Losses & New Challenges
This week I’ve painted another stone tile to add to my wholehearted living bowl. If you missed the first post about this creative practice, you can read about how and why I’m doing this creative exercise over here. The wholehearted word that I’m adding this week (“Serendipity”) is actually a word I’m going to carry…
Top 8 Books I Recommend For Grieving & Living Wholeheartedly After Loss
I often get asked for book recommendations on the topic of grieving. I’m normally a book-addict but I found myself unable to read for the first 6 months after Juggernaut died – I just didn’t have the concentration span or will. Once I started reading again though, to be honest, I found that really great…
A Creative Practice For Living Wholeheartedly After Loss
Most people who are struggling with grief don’t come to me saying, “I want to learn to live wholeheartedly after loss.” Usually, they say something like, “I want to stop feeling so depressed/ anxious/ tired/ angry. I want to stop crying all the time/ feeling demotivated and direction-less/ avoiding intimacy because I’m afraid of loving…
Why You Should Be Suspicious of Stories About Grief & Healing
Yesterday a good friend of mine posted this video of Tyler Cowen, an economist, speaking about why we should be suspicious of stories. Tyler’s point: Stories make a messy reality seem neat, purposeful, meaningful, and that’s one of the reasons why our brains love stories. But the problem is that reality is actually very messy, complex…
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Cath walks, makes art, raises funds for the Kidney Foundation, supports bereaved people to live wholeheartedly after loss, tends to her small urban garden, writes, coordinates volunteers at MISS Foundation and enjoys having compassionate conversations with new and old friends. Cath is an experienced Social Worker, Neuro-linguistic Psychology Master Practitioner and Martha Beck Life Coach.
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