After my husband died, even though I am a writer, it seemed that words were inadequate to describe how I felt. Fortunately, my emotional overflow found a new outlet – visual arts – where I communicated through color, shape, and texture. 

 

I became a Creative Grief Practitioner to help others navigate their loss through creative expression and ultimately reach a place where their lives, once again, have meaning. I’m sorry it took my husband’s death to set me on this path, but what a joy it is to watch others transform.

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I do this mostly through workshops and groups, but would be happy to meet with you one-on-one. 

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Here's some of what I believe about grief.

Hopefully this list will help you determine if you
would like to work with me or attend one of my workshops:  

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• The stages of grief are misleading and certainly not linear.

• We each grieve in our own time-frame.

• Hope and joy are still possibilities. 

• Isolating to an excess from grief is not healthy. 

• Grief can come from many things such as job loss, retirement, relocation, illness, financial changes, divorce, death of loved ones (including pets), legal issues, etc. 

• We learn how to grieve through family, friends, and the media and these ways are not always beneficial. 

• Self-care is important. 

• Tapping into sources of resilience from past losses is very helpful. 

• Each loss is different and unique... and multiple losses often have a domino effect. 

• In addition the the main loss, there are many invisible losses that come from it that also need to be addressed. 

• The word SHOULD needs to be banned from conversations with people who are grieving. 

• Grief that is high-profile or stigmatized in our culture does not have to lead to shame. 

• There is no hierarchy of grief, as we each experience our own grief at 100%.

• Others who have not experienced deep grief tend to say things that are infuriating. 

• Resilience can be learned and practiced.

• Being in community is helpful.

• Accepting help is not always easy.  

• Grief stems from a change in a way of being such that we cannot go back to the way it was; yet we still have choices. 

• We are not our grief. 

• Grief is transformative.

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