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

Healing while grieving looks different for everyone

Grieving and healing are a journey marked not by an end goal but the small transformations that happen along the way.

Naila FrancisApril 20, 2023grief, grief support, Philadelphia grief support, grief awareness, Philly grief coach, grief and loss, grief and loss supportComment

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.

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.

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

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.

Naila FrancisSeptember 30, 2021grief and healing, grief, grief and loss, death and dying, dying dad, dead dad club, facing death, death awareness, grief awareness, grief poem, poems about loss Comment

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

How do you know you’re grieving? Here’s a little check-in

We all respond differently to grief. But the key part is to respond — in a way that honors our true feelings and experience, that makes room to process and move through the layers. That allows us to tune into our bodies and all they’re holding.

Naila FrancisJuly 12, 2020grief, grieving, loss, grief support, coping with grief, grief and loss, therapy for grief, healing grief, honoring grief, minority mental health awareness monthComment

Allowing joy and sorrow in the time of coronavirus

I let the tears come. I put my hand on my heart. I told myself, "I am here for this moment."
And I allowed that sorrow to speak, let myself be with the heaviness of these times.

Naila FrancisMarch 21, 2020grief, grieving, the courage to feel, coronavirus, pandemic, emotional intelligence, emotional resilience, honoring your feelings Comment

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.