Find Solace, Healing, and Meaning in the Face of Loss
Welcome
If you are here, then the first thing I want to say is, I am so sorry for your loss.
I understand that all grief is unique so I will never pretend to understand your specific grief in its complexity. But, perhaps, with my help, you will.
There is not a singular roadmap to navigating grief. There are, however, some things that every griever must do to move along their own road to adapt and assimilate their grief into their lives.
I invite you, my fellow griever, to walk with me for a while. Perhaps if we have synergy, you will let me help you find your way through the darkness of grief on your journey toward illumination. Perhaps you will let me help you to engage with your grief in a meaningful way, as I have learned to do.
Perhaps you will let me help guide you as you develop a stronger sense of how this grief will be integrated in a meaningful way.
It is my hope and faith that you will discover, as I have, that…
Why Illumination?
Illumination is a sacred place in my grief story. Illumination is a metaphor for an enlightened viewpoint. Illumination that shines upon us brings light to the darkness of our grief. Illumination that shines from within us brightens our lives and those whom we touch.
And perhaps we broken-hearted grievers know best of all about that special grace called Illumination.
Why is that you may ask?
Join me and I believe you will come to understand what I have come to understand about this sacred journey of grief as you move through your own darkness toward illumination.
Who is this Grief Counseling for?
Anytime we lose who or what we love, it is an experience of grief. When grief enters our lives, it touches us in a myriad of ways that can be permanent and painful.
Whether you’ve lost a spouse, a beloved pet, or you are a parent who has lost a child, a friend who lost a friend, a child who lost a parent, or any of the millions of definitions of grievers, you are different now.
You are tasked to adapt to and integrate with your grief to heal well and move into your life, transformed.
Every griever must engage with their own grief in order to heal.
Every griever is welcome here.
Who am I to guide you?
I’m a Registered Nurse turned Grief Counselor because my life has been transformed by grief.
It started the night my husband died of cancer. It continued when one of my best friends died of a brain virus the next year. It magnified when my beloved dog left this earth 6 years later. And it honed into a razor’s edge the day my boyfriend and new love died in my arms from a cardiac arrest just a few months later.
Every griever must find a way to make sense of their loss.
My way to make sense included writing poetry and in counseling others.