09/23/2024
Happy fall my friends,
I hope you're feeling the shift of seasons in your bones as we say goodbye to summer and head into the rainy season.
Gratitude to nature for reminding us over and over again how to let go.
I want to give you a heads up about some amazing people who I'm working with to create a community grief ritual in Nehalem in a few weeks.
I've found grief circles to be a safe place to be with my grief and with other people. Your grief will be honored, heard and witnessed. There's also music, songs, and poems woven in to keep the grief "warm" aka not stuck in the head.
I'm surprised how full of love and reassurance this work feels to me. Instead of being heavy it actually feels much lighter to let grief be held by other people.
Here's a little about the offering:
The Community Grief Retreat will be an opportunity to come together to witness one another in whatever grief is present during this intense and historic time we live in. Whether it shows up as something collective or as mourning a very personal loss, we'll bring whatever we carry together and tend to the common “well of grief” that holds it all.
We offer this space anchored in the belief that grieving in community is an essential step in dismantling the broken systems in our world and healing both personally and collectively.
It's happening October 11th-13th at the White Clover Grange in Nehalem OR
I'll be a part of the grief tending team for this event and if any of this speaks to you I highly recommend you join us!
We're hoping to be a group of about 20- including the five people leading the retreat.
The only way to sign up is to go to this link and register online.
https://www.northfork53.com/events/p/community-grief
There's a $50 early registration discount that's being offered this week.
If you want to hear more about it, there's a great Nurture Pod episode where I'm talking with my cousin Josh talk about the upcoming retreat.
Check it out below and let me know what you think.
https://www.northfork53.com/news/2024/9/12/nurture-pod-19-wild-edges-of-grief-and-community
I'm here for you too, please reach out if you have any questions.
Ginger
