"How can my Sanctuary Serve you?"

I have worked with folks who are dealing with grief for years. My sense of compassion pulls on me to hear the stories & share the sorrows. I don’t think our culture does a good job of handling loss. We want to stuff it, avoid it, & just make it go away. I became a Certified Grief Specialist in April of last year so that I could have more techniques to help clients work THROUGH their grief vs putting it on the back burner of their souls. “They” say that experience is the best

That old expression from our friend Charlie Brown seems an oximoron & yet there is an ocean of truth in the statement. We've had a number of corporate losses of late & I was just at a funeral home today at friend who'd lost her mother after a long illness. Whether the loss is death is "expected" as in this case or sudden, the grief process is as complicated as the individual themselves. And yet it's one we often try to rush through, as if that will make it end faster, when