To Rest: Grief and Loss Are Labor
Grief and loss take significant time, energy, and patience. Rest is part of that work—not as idleness or an escape from life, but as a slower, steadier way of making room for what is being carried. Explore physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual forms of rest and how choosing rest can become part of working through grief and loss.
What Lies Beneath the Grief?
What lies beneath grief? This reflection explores how grief may involve the brain, nervous system, body, attachment, and physical well-being while recognizing the limits of neuroscience and one-size-fits-all explanations.
The Lost Stage of Grief: Purging
Grief rarely unfolds in a predictable or linear way. This essay explores the commonly recognized stages of grief through an art therapist’s lens and considers purging as a proposed phase of release, surrender, uncertainty, trust, and integration.