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

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.

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.