Grief Counselling

Grief can be a time of transformation; new beginnings. I view grief as a soul-based journey where you turn inward and explore your inner landscape; honoring the spirits you follow and, who follow you.

I believe healing from grief is possible. This doesn’t mean you will be free of moments of mourning but it won’t be all consuming.

Most all of us have experienced loss which can result in a prolonged grief reaction.

Coping with severe illness, dying, and the grief process can be deeply painful. Together we can reframe your experience to be transformational.

Loss can mean many different things, we often relate loss to a physical death of someone, but it can also be:

loss of a marriage or relationship,
loss of a job,
loss of home,
loss of body image,
loss of innocence,
loss of childhood
loss of independence due aging or illness
loss of trust, hopes, or dreams
loss of dignity or self-respect through abuse

No matter what your sense of loss is you can have a grief response that can cause deep emotional pain.

As a result of the pandemic there are many people who have lost loved ones where they couldn’t be at their bedside due to hospital restrictions; that too is a loss. Maybe you needed to tell that person something before they left this world, maybe you wanted one last touch, hug, kiss, or maybe you wanted to say “good bye”. Whatever your experience has been it can impact on how you grieve.

“Grief is the constellation of internal thoughts and feelings we have when someone loved dies. Grief is the weight in the chest, the churning of the gut, the unspeakable thoughts and feelings….

Mourning is the outward expression of grief. Mourning is crying, journaling, creating artwork, talking to others about the death, telling the story, speaking the unspeakable.

Everyone grieves when someone loved dies, but if we are to heal, we must also mourn. “

(Healing Your Grieving Body, Alan D. Wolfelt, and Kirby J. Duvall)