14/07/2026
These past weeks have asked a lot of my heart.
A dear friend leaving this world. My sweet cat, Monty. A body flaring and asking for more rest than the season wants to give.
And alongside all of it, gratitude. Not instead of the grief. Beside it. In the same breath.
I used to think the task was to move through grief until I arrived back at gratitude, as though one replaced the other. Life keeps teaching me otherwise. Our hearts are made to hold contradictions. To mourn what has been lost while loving what remains.
If something in this touches a grief of your own, whether fresh or long-carried, there is a place for it.
This Wednesday, 15th July, 7 to 9pm, I’m holding an online Grief Circle, with an EcoNIDRA folded in to close the evening. A chance to set down what you’re carrying in the company of others doing the same, then rest, held by the earth.
It will be the last Grief Circle before the autumn. And, as it happens, it falls on my mum’s birthday. It feels right to spend it this way. Tending grief in good company.
You don’t need the right words. You don’t need to know exactly what you’re grieving. You only need to come as you are.
Link in bio to join us. 🕯️