My hope is that what I share here invites you into a possibility that is healing, expansive and miraculous whether you choose me to guide you in this capacity or not.

 

Let’s dive in!

 

I believe that losing a parent is an initiation that can offer us insight into ourselves, our lineage, and the spirit world. I believe that through our grief, there is a possibility where we are brought to our knees and hollowed out. And I believe that this humility and hollowed out place is a portal that has the potential to expand our ability to contain wisdom, compassion and wonder.

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Coming into right relationship with the paradox of our grief and our praise is what transforms us into spiritually mature adults. And if we continue to listen deeply, I think it is what transforms us into the elders who know how to guide our children and future children toward becoming people they can be truly proud of.

 

Many people who lose a parent hardly ever talk about them again. The tenderness of the wound can create a feedback loop, where we don't want to talk about them because it hurts. And it’s so painful because we haven't spoken about them and really processed the immense loss and transformational nature of the transition.

 

When we are able to unkink the hose and clear the blockages in the line, we open the flow of love and life-force energy between their spirit and ours, once again. It’s like a river. There is nothing I need to do for it to flow besides help you remove what is blocking it.

 

This unkinking of the hose has impacts that branch out into every aspect of life. Because we are a living organic system, when there is a blockage the entire web of our lives and relationships is affected. The positive aspect of this is true as well. When we offer care, attention and investment to healing an aspect of this web, the entire system transforms.

 

I believe there is a possibility for closeness with our ancestors inside our being that can be deeply humbling and spiritually profound. And that this intimacy is a doorway into an entire realm of unseen support.

 

It’s incredible to consider all the people’s shoulders we stand on to be here. All the people who survived and reproduced despite great odds.

 

May this course and our work together honor their life and sacrifice and bless our parents and all our ancestors toward the light of their next adventure. So that forgiveness can flow backward and forward and help guide us in the carving of a fresh possibility for ourselves, the people we come into contact with and the world.

 

In taking the time to connect with and care for all the parts of ourselves through conscious choice and group ritual we bring the unconscious to the conscious.

 

THis is a portal if you choose to see it as such. This is an invitation to take your seat at the table of our life in a very real way. As we remember how to be with grief, we carve the path that shows others how to grieve. As we learn to how to hold the paradox of life and death, we show other how to hold the paradox of their joy and suffering as well. 

 

In a world that has banished death and worships youth, we have forgotten something profound. When we turn toward this truth together we remember our place in the wholeness of things. And that is a deeply meaningful and beautiful thing.