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Grief support means more than human care
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.

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surviving grief, healing from loss, grief tools, grief tips, grief support, grief and loss, grief journey, grief resources, mental healthNaila Francisgrief, grief care, living with grief, living with loss, grief and loss, grief support, grief and loss support, Philly grief support, Philly grief coach, Philadelphia grief support, Philadelphia grief coach, healing with the ancestors, healing in nature, grief wisdomComment
Your body wants to move this grief — and other self-care tips
Your body wants to move this grief — and other self-care tips

I often turn to movement as one of the most reliable tools in my grief toolbox. Sometimes this dance is prayer. Sometimes fire. Or a thousand tears unlocked. Always, it is the deepest of self-care.

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grief, grief and loss, grief coaching, grief support, grief tips, grief tools, grief resources, embodied griefNaila Francisgrief, grief and loss, grief movement, grief and trauma, mental health, mental health awareness, uvalde school shooting, buffalo massacre, George Floyd, grief care, grief support, grief and healing, grief and loss supportComment
Grief is lonely: here are five ways to find support
Grief is lonely: here are five ways to find support

There is a unique loneliness to grief that is one of its searing, undeniable truths. Still, you deserve to be seen and validated in your grief, to find a haven where you can safely be with and give voice to your pain.

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grief, grief and loss, grief coaching, grief support, grief tools, surviving griefNaila Francisgrief and loss, grief care, grief and healing, pandemic grief, grieving, grief journey, loneliness, grief community, grief support Comment
Saying goodbye to a year of grief and loss: a guide for reflecting
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.

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grief support, grief tools, grief coaching, grief and loss, grief journeyNaila Francisgoodbye 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