"Don't turn away. Keep your gaze on the bandaged place.
​That's where the light enters you."  Rumi

This has been a time of great loss.
And immense dissolution.
Of dreams. And forests.
Of relationships, homes, families and systems.
Of the things we once believed in purely and radically.
And of the things we were willing to stand up for and hold on to.

This has been a cycle of letting go on a monumental scale… in ways we never saw coming or could ever fathom this was their end.

And the truth is, we're all grieving.
Grieving SO MUCH in these transitioning times.
For the loss of sacred land and precious home.
For the loss of pristine forests and succulent beach.
For the loss of family, loved ones and integral parts of ourselves.
For the loss of dreams and capacities, and things we thought we'd be doing.
For the loss of who we thought WE were and were becoming.
And the reckoning with who we've been and actually long to be. Actually long to be.

The passage through our grief is not logical nor a straight-through shot.

It's circuitous and meandering. Taking us far back into a lost innocence. A terrifying moment.
Into a memory that rises up quick and fast, once overwhelming our system and causing us to shut down.

And now this time. THIS time.
We don't.
We can't.
We aren't.
Shutting down.

We aren't shutting down our hearts to the ache that goes beyond our comprehension.

We aren't shutting down our openness to what's holding its hand out to us.
We aren't shutting down our memories of dreams once longed for and what needs to be done to allow them to flourish and breathe.
We aren't shutting down our deepest hearts presence to ourselves.

We're letting it in.
We're letting it return.
We're letting it FLOW.
Right back to us.
Offering this River Of Our Tears.
To carry us on. Flowing. Flowing.
As we move through this Grief Journey.
Together.

Now a Course!

Grief, Grace, God...dess!  provides rich medicine for the soul of humanity in these times.

It is sent to you as a digital resource through a .pdf workbook and .mp3 audios.

This is a sacred resource that incorporates support for your grief through:
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  • pre-recorded Community Conversations
  • Medicine Women Wisdom
  • Alchemical Transmissions
  • Love letters, Poems, Wisdom and Artistry
  • Grief Ritual and Ceremony
  • Blessings for the ongoing practice of our personal and collective grief
Through this process learn to...
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  • unveil the deeper purpose of your Grief
  • celebrate Grief as a Gift...
  • liberate its wisdom and power in your life
  • make time to honor grief and why this is vital to one's body, self-care and well-being
  • delve in to alchemical practices to befriend your grief
  • return to the radiant aliveness and fullness of life!
  • feel the implications of doing this work for the benefit of humanity

"We don't need a magician to take it all away - we just need a witness." Glennon Doyle

A  Deeper Purpose

Many cultures acknowledge grief work and ceremony as an integral part of the healthy fabric and healing of their society. Communities gather to share song and dance in honor of all that's torn their hearts apart and open. Women throw themselves on the earth, wailing without reserve. People openly speak to their Gods and deities, asking for support and intervention. Shedding their angst, proclaiming their doubt, fear and limitations. Honoring they are not in this alone.

The intention of this Grief Journey is to provide a safe container and guidepost for this much-needed societal wisdom and healing. Within our modern-day context, Grief, Grace, God...dess! provides time and space to have our heartache held within a Feminine-based container, while drawing upon the wisdom of our larger community and divine support.

True Nourishment for Your Soul

What's included...
                                                               
  • 7 Feminine Alchemy Transmissions
  • 11 interviews with Holy Medicine Women
  • a Community Grief Ritual/Conscious Dying Ceremony
  • 4 Deepening Community Calls
  • a digital 66 page .pdf book with all the Wisdom, Poems, Love Letters, Songs, Reflections and Artistry from this Grief process
What others are saying...
"I am here with so much feeling in my body. And such a powerful validation of how grief has worked so persistently to let me know that She is nearby always with me. I am building dams to actually hold back the power of grief and the gift She wants to give me .... I am keeping myself from being fully alive here now. I don't want to be standing with one foot in this world and one foot in the beyond. Today's transmission has filled me with a new perspective ...a new hope. A doorway into the possibility of love "found" not love "lost ". ~ participant, east coast USA
"I'm finding actual physical comfort in the softening of my grief and being with it. And amazingly, I find myself tiptoeing into GRACE. The flow of this journey is speaking volumes to me. I was in such a dark, almost defeated place. I was thinking to myself about how I was perceiving my path through this and how much emphasis I was putting on Grief. My mind didn't compute the Grace and Goddess aspects. They felt so far away from me. The idea was wonderful but not something I thought myself capable of. But I do feel it today. And I know that this will be an ongoing process in my life, and I welcome that now. Thank you!" ~ participant, west coast USA
"There are many open processes of Grief in my life, and certainly more to come. There has been one that I have greatly neglected, and on the eve of this journey it showed her tender face to me.  So I chose to grieve myself on this journey.
 I chose to hold so tenderly and to fully grieve the ways that I have turned away from God. These are times when I have lost my faith, moments when I have questioned God's Grace, not least so in moments of grief when I have turned my face away from Righteousness, and in so doing, have denied my grief the possiblity of coming home. For in my heart I know; there is no river the ocean does not receive." participant, England  
"It has been a tender sanctuary. It has been heartening to know I’m not alone in my grief. I have wondered at the heightened awareness I’ve experienced and marveled at the power of group intention. I’m grateful to all the participants, willing and unknowingly, who joined me on this wild journey." ~ participant, west coast USA
"Now I see (grief) with a different lens, a lens that I could've only come to by going through the grief process." ~ participant, east coast USA
"Loving people have grief, and Collective grieving is essential for health and well being. I am so tired of the habit to isolate and live alone with grief. I need to be closer to others who have softened their hearts, who are willing to walk together and recognize their deep sorrow as well as their loving joy and connection. I think in our societal dysfunction we have made grief into a selfish experience. Today I aim to slow and soften to the fear and recognition that this body (mine and all of the worlds') is temporal and precious, made of love and light and everything in between." ~ participant, east coast USA

Join Sharon Ann Rose, M.Div.
on this journey

Sharon is a Wise Woman and Priestess of Grief, having worked with its deepest waters to learn how we flow with its descending current into a practice of one’s own self-care and love.

Through this intimate 7-day process she gifts her sacred tools, insight and impeccable care to support coming in to greater relationship with oneself and the hardest challenges of our lives.

It is here we discover how we make it through.
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Not necessarily to an ‘other’ side, for there may not be one.
Yet rather, into a deeper discovery of how we make it IN to a more intimate sense of what is honest, true and joyful for ourselves and all we are connected to..

And how we release what no longer is working so we can enter the coming times through our own interior cleansing, the likes of which we didn’t know was possible.

Our Soul Wisdom Keepers

Jenn Tasnim Savage

Jenn is the founder of A Heart Centered Life & creator of The Healer's Journey™. She is a highly skilled empath, spiritual healer and business strategist who helps highly sensitive & empathic healers walk upon their True Path. She will help you tap into your Soul’s GPS & courageously answer The Call of your Heart. Once connected to your deep inner knowing, you will leave behind old stories and confidently step into being the Thought Leader & Luminary you were created to be. 

Within our Grief Journey, Jenn shares about how we can honor the "die before you die" process, addressing the pain & anguish we feel when faced with the uncertainty of letting go of everything we were taught, or think we are supposed to be, in order for our true colors to emerge. She speaks to the importance of honoring the small moments of loss, or disappointment, that happen on a daily basis, and how letting these things open up, can potentially lead to rich understanding of ourselves, the people we love and the world at large. 

Learn more about Jenn's work @ ​jennsavage.com
Anaiya Sophia

Anaiya Sophia is an independent mystic of an almost forgotten faith and a teacher of Kundalini Yoga. She carries an Oral Transmission that stirs the remembrance of the Sophia, Isis, Magdalene lineage. This mystical tradition is a continuous lineage with the Feminine Principle that throughout the centuries has preserved its spiritual dignity, without a need for permission or recognition from any other source. Anaiya recognises the need for Initiation and uses the vast intelligence of her years to orchestrate those Rites of Passage. Her methods carry the hallmarks of a mystic, so unmistakable in today's sugarcoated world of partial truth and placating love. Her ferocious allegiance to direct experience and radical revelation imparts a wisdom that inflames you.

Within our Grief Journey, Anaiya speaks about the Dark Night of the Soul...  a prolonged period of emotional and spiritual desolation in which there is seemingly no consolation.  It can feel like a collapse of the perceived meaning in our lives. And it hurts.  And it’s meant too. Usually, at first, there is a sense of loss or betrayal, but after time, should you surrender to the process, the suffering becomes transformed into a spiritual gift of pure gold. The Dark Night is a herald, an omen, of change. It lets us know that we can’t continue living the way we have been living. There is no growth, no awakening in life, to life, without first seeing and acknowledging our existing disappointment.

Learn more about Anaiya's work @ ​anaiyasophia.com
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest Souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
~Khalil Gibran
Janice Aday Forbes

Janice is a freelance consultant, coach, and website developer with Virtual Business Solutions. She lives in Silverlake, Washington overlooking the majestic Mt. St. Helens with her husband, several of her six children and grandchildren, five dogs, and Lucy the cat.

Within our Grief Journey, Janice shares, "Grieving comes from the soul. Depression comes from the mind."

Through our tender conversation, she spoke about the death of her son. And the honesty of her grief. How she daily questions why this had to happen. We spoke about how grief takes you to places that can't be fixed. And how it brings you to the honest truth... that there's no assurance of any next moment, ever!

The immensity of Janice's grief has brought her to the place of longing to be her best, as a way of honoring her son. To be who she inherently is. And allow that part of herself to come out. The real her.

May her REAL wisdom bless us all.

Learn more about Janice and her work @ https://www.facebook.com/virtualbusinesssol/
Amy Livingstone

Amy is a contemporary sacred artist and spiritual activist now based in North Carolina. She began drawing at a young age while growing up in New Hampshire and completed undergraduate studies in fine art. After relocating to Portland in the early 90s, she discovered figurative sculpture through classes at the Pacific NW College of Art and studied at Hipbone Studio for six years while maintaining a thriving graphic design business. In 2001, after a spiritual awakening that unfolded over a long period of grieving, she answered her soul calling to work professionally as an artist. In 2003, Amy founded Sacred Art Studio after a transformative ten-day training with environmentalist Joanna Macy and dedicates her work to the healing of our world.

Drawing inspiration from all spiritual traditions and the wisdom of our indigenous ancestors, Amy’s artwork reveals through a symbolic language our innate interconnectedness in the web of creation and reverences the earth as holy.

Born of the wisdom gleaned from her own grieving process and facilitating children at The Dougy Center, Ms. Livingstone has designed and led inspirational workshops/retreats since 2002. These gatherings bring together art making and mindfulness practices to support healing and transformation. Amy is a certified Spiritual Director from Urban Spirituality Center, a practitioner of non-violent communication, and studied shamanism with teachers both locally and in Peru.

To learn more about Amy and her work visit: https://www.sacredartstudio.net
Sarah Page

Sarah Page is a metaphysical juggler learning how to cope with objects that don’t bounce. She is a student and professor of parenting, marriage, persisterhood, democratic citizenship, and Fred Rogers. Sarah is a Lover and advocate for integrity.

Within our Grief journey, Sarah acknowledges that grief is asking her to see it exactly as it is. She senses that Grief would describe her as a friend and a safe place. Grief would say she is here to (re)learn about herself and to help others see themselves through the process of befriending grief.
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Rae-Ven Shanna

Rae-ven serves our Grief Journey as a Co-Celebrant for our Community Grief Ritual and Conscious Dying Process.

Years ago, my heart called me out of the corporate life I was living and into my true reason for being alive. It was an undeniable calling that became a journey of surrender, healing, magic and empowerment. It was a journey of trust and passion, never knowing the next step and learning to rely on my intuition and inner wisdom. Through this personal quest I awakened and developed my inherent skills of working with energy and intuitive healing.

I am an empathic energy healer and guide. My heart's work is helping people through the darkness of transition into the truth of their own light. I co-create earth and heart-centered sacred space for healing and transformation: for individuals, families and situations. I work with the soul and subtle energy bodies, channeling energy and information that supports the individual or situation.  I provide the space for transmutation of pain and suffering, and empower others natural abilities to do the same. I tend to the vulnerabilities of the soul.

I am passionate about helping people know peace within by providing pathways and support for the journey from head to heart. I offer shamanic energy healing, transformational immersions, plant spirit medicine, guidance, meditation and mindfulness, readings/divination, ceremony/rituals, death & dying services.
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Anne Murray Mozingo

Anne serves our Grief Journey through sharing her own intimate journey of grief and learning how to show up FULLY for each loss.

Anne is a devoted mother, freelance writer, reporter and Reiki Master. She is a supporter of others through the Grief and Loss process as a Caretaker of Humanity's Heart. As a hospice trained facilitator, she served widows through their own grieving in their darkest hour. Anne is a Sisterhood Leader and Mystery School graduate.

In the past 17 years, Anne has lost 17 people who were deeply close to her, beginning with her husband who passed away unexpectedly when Anne was a new nursing mother of their 17-month old babe. She experienced in the most primal way what it is to lose everything overnight. During this stage of her life, she wrote a personal heart-felt newspaper column entitled, "Labor of Love," in which she shared the raw experience from the inside landscape of her own loss.

Anne is a role model for how to live from both a broken heart AND an insurmountable joy!! For as low as she has been, she has discovered her highest of highs within that.

Anne shares with us her most potent mantra, "The depth of your pain is equal to the depth of joy that is coming to me. That joy is coming to you!"
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Medea Bavarella Chechik

Medea serves our Grief Journey through sharing her own story of loss and what she's discovered because of it.

Medea is a Best Selling Author of Facing Grief With Eyes Wide Open, an expert Transformative Teacher, Facilitator, Leader and successful Master Coach. Her work, which is also her mission, is about inspiring and facilitating people in their process of transformation and evolution, in order to awaken their higher purpose and contribute their gifts and genius to their life and the world. She uses her gifts of intuition, compassion, innovation, creativity and clarity of vision to gently and powerfully cut through what is not aligned to the highest perspective of truth. She is a master at creating affinity, rapport, deep caring and a powerful context where healing and transformation occurs naturally, powerfully and gracefully.

Medea is a Feminine Power Transformative Coach, Therapist and Leader supporting people on their personal journey, from ‘victim’ to empowered co-creators. She is the Founder and Host of WeEvolve TV™, an online talk show, where she has interviewed many Luminaries in the field of Human Consciousness. Her interviews have been inspiring individuals globally. She has Co-Hosted Liquid Lunch, a talk show on ThatChannel TV.

Medea’s unique style, integrity, gracefulness, passion, enthusiasm, a desire to assist and contribute, and a sharp ability to get to the core truth of any situation, provide a valuable advantage and benefit to all those who are mentored and guided by her. She will demonstrate and guide you how you, too, can live a liberated life of fulfillment, accomplishment and joy, you may have never known was possible.
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Jewelz Ann Lovejoy

Jewelz serves our Grief Journey through sharing about her deepening practice of creative expression as a pathway for listening to and transforming her grief.

Jewelz is a Priestess for Humanity. She is a Shamanic Healer, Musician, Artist and Esthetician, who offers wisdom, events, services and resources to support others opening to profound Self-Love with a joyful heart ❤️ of everyone's Authentic beauty.

"From my creators womb bursting forth dancing, singing and ready to sparkle, shine, play, laugh, experience love in every possible opportunity.

Grief is a opportunity of discovering, curiosity, unknown beauty and possibilities. 

My journey today understands that to be who I am is a catalyst to Feel all the possibilities for connecting with our magnificent world a surrender of my self to what is and route my heart every day a masterpiece of Artistry a living being full of wonderment and mystery. 

Exploring and the curiousness of infinite loss, fury, suffering, wounding, self sabotage, falsified story telling, impact of beliefs and experiences that feel very real and live in our density of being and from here navigate a journey that creates a world of exploration. 

My wonderment acknowledges that creatively anything is possible, I wish to color the world with change, I wish to be grateful, and at peace with my will of choice to be here and Arrive feeling what I feel and coloring, dancing, singing what is from my authentic Soul and may my Spirt touch the purity of life as a creative being with reverence and blessings."

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Jennifer Rayfield

Jenny serves our Grief Journey by offering her dance of discovery of Grief as Medicine and the story of how she now calls it an act of Praise!

Jennifer holds a Masters in Education and degrees in Dance Therapy and Nutrition Therapy, specializing in womens' health.  She owned a therapeutic movement studio for 5 years and has taught movement therapy all over the country for more then 20 years, fusing world dance and music with a focus on the continent of Africa.  Her passion is keeping the Feminine intelligence alive, healthy and well, in all people. 

Understanding grief as praise and medicine has been integral on this path.  She was lucky enough to study with Sobonfu Some and facilitate grief ritual in the ways of this beloved teacher's African tradition.   She also draws great inspiration from the teachings of Martin Prechtel.
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Anne Richardson

Anne serves our Grief Journey through sharing her reflections on creating an intimate relationship with grief, exposing how it is here to nurture and guide us, not harm or abuse us.

Anne is a Board Certified Chaplain, Certified Spiritual Director, Certified Veriditas Labyrinth Facilitator, and award winning poet. She established Nurture Your Journey in 2016 after working in home hospice for more than seven years. Anne has offered presentations on use of poetry as a pathway for healing and coping with grief at the Oregon All-State Palliative Care conference, to the Association of Professional Chaplains, North Oregon Chapter and Oregon Health Care Association. She has also presented on the benefits of walking the labyrinth as pathway for healing and reflection.

Anne earned a Masters of Art in Christian Education and her Certificate in Spiritual Direction from George Fox Evangelical Seminary. Her chaplain certification is through the Association of Professional Chaplains. She also has a certificate in Palliative Care Chaplaincy Specialty from CSU Institute of Palliative Care at California San Marcos and labyrinth facilitator training and certification through Veriditas. Her additional training includes two years at the Portland Veterans Administration Medical Center with one year as a fellow focusing on veterans with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Moral Injury.

Her interest in grief and loss as it unfolds at all times in our lives, from birth to death, and reflecting on healthy ways to journey through grief is one of her many passions.

"We carry within us stories of dust and tears. Embarrassed gasps and stifled whimpers. Skinned egos on dirt playgrounds. Resilience soaked in swamped boats. A list of firsts. Another list of lasts. Cupboards full of “what ifs.”
Words lodged in our bones; petroglyphs we can’t decipher.
We bind grief with a corset made of barbed wire, fearing that if it breathed, we would never stop bleeding.
Invite grief on your journey. Allow your grief to breathe."
Anne Richardson