Grief Rituals facilitates the grief process by helping you reconnect with the natural world through the use of ritual or ceremony. Whether your grief results from the death of a loved one, from the loss of a relationship, of a job, loss of your health or other traumatic event Grief Rituals may be able to help.
We have all experienced the painful chaotic emotions of grief. Most of us have difficulty expressing these emotions. Often we try to avoid them by distracting ourselves with excessive use of alcohol or other drugs, television or other forms of entertainment, over-eating, or sometimes excessive religious devotion.
Even if we are prepared to face loss, especially the loss of a loved one we may find it difficult to resolve the grief we experience. Modern western culture seems to leave little room for honoring grief, or the grieving. Traditional forms of counseling, while extremely helpful, may leave us still feeling as though "something else" needs to happen so that we can truly close our wounds.
Grief Rituals may be able to provide that "something else" by helping you design a meaningful ritual and/or ceremony which honors you and your loss. The ritual is designed to help you reconnect with the world of nature and to discover the healing power that exists therein. This, in turn, can help you discover that the same healing power exists within yourself.
Grief Rituals is also available whenever possible to help the dying design and perform such a ceremony or ritual with loved ones before death. This is a way to help resolve the issues and "unfinished business" that surface for many when faced with a terminal illness. Such resolution can assist in facing the most important transition in life peacefully and with dignity.
One way to feel rooted, grounded and secure while coming to peace with grief is to restore our connection with the earth beneath our feet. I personally believe that much of modern western culture's increasing distance from the natural world is a cause of grief in and of itself. More people than ever before live in urban environments and work in places that create still more distance between humans and nature. But our mental and emotional health are tied to the health of planet earth. More than ever we need to remember this.
Grief Rituals is one way to restore that connection between ourselves and the earth. I will be honored to help you explore, reconnect, heal and remember.
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