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.

Posts tagged death and dying

My dad is dying: on loss, love and gratitude

My dad was dying. And somehow the naming, a trembling willingness to inhabit that fact gave me the courage I needed. To be there.

Embracing death is saying yes to life

We are already being stripped to the bare essentials under quarantine, re-evaluating what matters most and envisioning what we want our life to look like moving forward. Death asks the same of us, instructs, “Go live. Live every bold and urgent breath of your glorious beating heart.”