Growing Through Grief

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Healing and Growth
When Times Are Hard

If the world were always kind and fair and sunny, chances are we might never meet. Yet, when the journey takes us to rugged, barren places, we sometimes lose our way and feel that life itself is overwhelming, cruel, not worth it. When we face a serious loss, disease or injury, we need support for body and spirit to heal and grow. Only you know what kind of help would be most comforting to you.

Do not surrender your grief so quickly.
Let it cut more deeply.
Let it ferment and season you as few human or divine ingredients can.
– Hafiz of Persia

I offer to attune myself to your need in the moment. Your sadness will be felt. Your longing for connection to what is lost or mourned will be met with my own longing to be a part of transformation. We do not yet know what that transformation will be. We trust that it will happen. Resilience in the body and the spirit’s own best resources lead us forward. Together, we enjoy the beauty and exhilaration that unfolds as you journey toward wholeness. The wounds of the past recede, and we view them from a new perspective, high on the hill we climb together. We look back over the road that winds through dark and light, through hill and valley. We grow stronger. We grow joyful.
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To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go. - Mary Oliver
To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.
– Mary Oliver

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Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head; And this our life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running rooks, Sermons in stones, and good in everything. - William Shakespeare
Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head; And this our life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running rooks, Sermons in stones, and good in everything.
– William Shakespeare

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May the road rise to meet you. May the wind be always at your back. - Irish Blessing
May the road rise to meet you.
May the wind be always at your back.
– Irish Blessing

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Tears are a river that takes you somewhere…Tears lift your boat off the rocks, off dry ground, carrying it downriver to someplace better. - Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Tears are a river that takes you somewhere…Tears lift your boat off the rocks, off dry ground, carrying it downriver to someplace better.
– Clarissa Pinkola Estes

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Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when we touch them with compassion. - Buddha
Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when we touch them with compassion.
– Buddha

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