“Given a choice between grief and nothing, I’d choose grief.” – William Faulkner
It Is Now the
Sometimes as a teacher and guide, I feel called to offer something without fully understanding why – I just know in my bones that it’s needed. That’s what happened in 2024, and I feel that same pull now in 2025.
When we tune into the Sacred Year’s rhythm, we find ourselves in what I call Grief Time. Whether you’re witnessing the first stirrings of spring or the gentle decline into autumn, depending on your hemisphere, this period coincides with Lent in the Christian tradition – a sacred space for sitting with our grief.
Since 2020, I’ve noticed a recurring theme in my work with clients and students: there’s a weight, a heaviness that many of us carry but don’t know how to address. This grief takes many forms. There’s our shared grief – the collective experience of COVID-19, the deep divisions in our society, the weight of current events. Then there’s our personal grief – the heart-shattering loss of loved ones, marriages ending, miscarriages, words spoken in anger that can’t be unsaid, and the countless ways we disappoint ourselves and others in our human imperfection.
I’ve come to understand that grief itself isn’t the enemy, nor is regret something to avoid at all costs. In my own journey and in witnessing others’, I’ve seen how both can be profound teachers. The real challenge isn’t the presence of grief – it’s our struggle to move through it, to dance with it. I believe this struggle stems from something simple yet profound: many of us have never been given permission to simply be with our sorrow.
Think about it – we have designated times for joy, for new beginnings, for remembering our dead. We have holidays for gratitude, patriotism, and honoring service members. We celebrate birthdays, solstices, and equinoxes. But where is our time for grief? When are we allowed to sit with our sorrow?
That time is now.
Let me be clear – this isn’t about wallowing. This is about acknowledging our pain and suffering so we can find its medicine and move toward healing. Carrying perpetual sadness isn’t healthy or necessary. We need to release it. But to release it, we must first acknowledge it, understand what medicine it needs, and apply that healing balm.
Now is that time. Now is the Grief Time.
✢ You’re carrying a weight of sorrow that feels too heavy to bear alone. Perhaps you’ve tried to “just get over it” because that’s what we’re often told to do, but you’ve found that grief doesn’t work that way. Maybe you wake up with a heart-heaviness you can’t quite name – a sadness that defies easy explanation.
✢ You notice grief seeping into other areas of your life, creating ripples of challenge where things once flowed smoothly. Or perhaps you’re carrying old sorrows that you’re finally ready to release, but the “how” of it feels overwhelming and unclear.
✢ Most importantly, you might be feeling that deep inner knowing that it’s time – time to tend to these old wounds, time to heal these ancient sorrows, time to learn how to dance with your grief rather than be consumed by it.
We will wrap up the experience with a Grief Healing Ceremony that I perform on behalf of all participants
Deadline to register is March 4th by 12 noon, central time
Are You Ready to Face (and Heal) Your Grief?
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