Hello Dear One,
You are here because you have experienced the territory of loss.
A deep bow of respect to you as you navigate through this terrain.
When I experienced the gut-wrenching pain of pregnancy loss, I felt a new kind of pain that seemed unbearable at times. Conventional responses to my grief about “trying again”, or well-meaning comments about it ” happening for a reason’ or “seeing the good in it”, seemed empty and were not the support I needed.
It became clear to me that the ONLY support I needed was the kind that honoured and respected the sacred process of grief that I was going through, and the time it took for me to tend to it.
Those who are grieving a loss do not need platitudes, or tips and skills for getting over it. Because when we are in grief, we are not broken. We need to collectively begin to shift the tides away from pathologizing our grief, and towards respecting the appropriate pain that comes in the face of loss. We need permission to feel the hard stuff.
Grief is painful. It is not a problem to be fixed or solved, or moved through in a particular time-frame. It does not follow a particular process with mappable stages. And it is also one of the aspects of our human experience that we share.
One thing to know for sure: wherever you are at, whatever you are feeling, however you are walking through grief, it is just right. There is no right way to grieve a loss. Your wise inner self knows the way…and for most of us, this wise self has a genuine need for a gentle guide. A guide to help us tend to the grief in a loving way. Navigating through loss is not something we were meant to do alone.
Seeking support through your grief is making a compassionate choice in line with what we have done since time immemorial as mammals. I draw upon a highly effective and nurturing approach, supporting you to befriend & tend to whatever is emerging in your unique process of loss.
“There are those that are not frightened of grief: dropping deep into the sorrow, they find there a necessary elixir to the numbness. When they encounter one another, when they press their foreheads against the bark of a centuries-old tree…their eyes well with tears that fall easily to the ground. The soil needs this water. Grief is but a gate, and our tears a kind of key opening a place of wonder that’s been locked away. Suddenly we notice a sustaining resonance between the drumming heart within our chest and the pulse rising from the ground.” ~ David Abram
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“With over 45 years experience as a medical professional, I have become very discriminating when recommending therapists. I experience a growing need for compassionate, skilled, well trained therapists who come from the heart – and Sarah fits the bill!! Sarah uses her intuitive gifts, training and a heart-centered approach, enabling those in her presence to feel safe, move through their pain, reconnect with their innate abilities and return to their sense of well being.”
– Carol Jean Douglas MD, Holistic Psychiatrist