Our Innate Need To Grieve
While we live in a culture that rushes us past sorrow and pain, as humans, we have an innate need for grief – to be with ourselves and others as we move through painful emotions. Crying helps flush stress hormones and other toxins from the body, and researchers have found that it stimulates the release of oxytocin and endorphins – the body’s natural feel-good chemicals that ease both physical and emotional pain.
Grief, when allowed to flow, reconnects us to our bodies, our values and longings, to our full aliveness and our children.
Grief was never meant to be carried in isolation. When we are able to express our feelings fully, while being gently held and witnessed by others, we often find – paradoxically – that it brings us closer to joy, and the fullness of life.
Grief, fully expressed and witnessed, is a portal to love.
As humans, we are wired to grieve – and we’re meant to do it together.
Come and be held in community
Tend the unseen within you
A safe space where your story is welcome,
where all your feelings are honoured,
and where healing can gently unfold.