Are you open and ready to receive care and support with a grief coach?

When it comes to seeking grief support, if we're not truly ready, if we're not open to transformation and new possibilities, we may remain stuck where we are.

surviving grief, mental health, grief support, grief journey, grief coaching, grief and loss, griefNaila FrancisJuly 21, 2023grief, Philadelphia grief coach, grief support, grief counseling, grief coaching, grief and loss, grief journeyComment

Grief support means more than human care

Sometimes when we're grieving, we hold onto a single idea of what we believe support should look like, feeling stung, lonely, bewildered, betrayed when the people we thought would be there fade to the edges of our lives. But the truth is we are always in relationship to support.

A Griever's Holiday Declaration

I let go of expectations, “shoulds” and thoughts of what the holidays are “supposed to be” … and other declarations and affirmations to help you make room for your grief in a season of blaring, bruising joy.

grief, grief and loss, grief coaching, grief healing, grief journey, grief support, grief tools, yogaNaila FrancisDecember 7, 2021grief and loss, grief, grief care, holiday grief, grieving, grief awareness, grief supportComment

Can we banish the phrase 'back to normal'?

To charge full-tilt into every bright and beckoning celebration without acknowledging our collective grief and trauma seems dismissive of the pain too many are carrying.

grief journey, grief and loss, grief, grief healingNaila FrancisMay 24, 2021grief and loss, grief, covid grief, grief during a pandemic, post-pandemic world, new normal, processing grief, creating community, collective care, collective trauma, collective healingComment

Saying goodbye to a year of grief and loss: a guide for reflecting

I do not make resolutions, haven’t for years. Yet I believe in looking back, if only to look forward, to see what we wish to carry into the new year, what we’re consciously choosing to leave behind. To acknowledge and honor who we are because of all we’ve lived.

grief support, grief tools, grief coaching, grief and loss, grief journeyNaila FrancisDecember 31, 2020goodbye 2020, new year's eve, welcoming a new year, grief journaling, ending the year, a new year, word of the year, hello 2021, a year of grief, holiday grief, grief careComment

Compassionate Support for Coping with Grief: Grief Blog and Counseling

Often it is because we have held great pain that we are able to embrace great joy when it arrives — to take both, the aching sadness, the sweetest pleasure, and find in them fertile ground for the refashioning of our lives.