The Grief Luminary

06/12/2021

Have you heard?
I have a 12 month membership (aka sanctuary) starting in 2022. And it would be my privilege to hold space for you and your grief.

The Hope Collective is a practical 12 month journey filled with self-guided support, monthly (live and recorded) workshops, live Q&A’s, a private Facebook group with others who understand loss and tangible heart tools to allow you to hold, nurture and honour your grief.

I’m sharing all the tools and practices I’ve been using for years to support my own healing and relationship to grief so that you too can feel empowered to connect with and soothe your grief when it arises.

These practices will help you: connect with your grief, honour your loss, express your experience of grief and remember with more love than pain. A brave and safe space to be nourished. Because you matter, your grief matters and your experience of grief matters to me.

One time payment - $480AUD or 12 monthly payments of $49AUD
For more information, and to join the waitlist for a very special bonus offer when cart opens, head to www.thegriefluminary.com/the-hope-collective

18/11/2021

Grief can be an incredibly lonely experience, would you agree?

Sometimes we’re surrounded by a support team of family and friends, other times they all seem to disappear.
In some cases, when you lose a loved one or experience a loss in your life, concerned friends and family tend to see you in only one role: grieving person. Can you relate?
This not only cuts us off from the kinds of interactions that might prove restorative, but it distorts the relationships that you would ordinarily count on for comfort.

But I’m here to tell you that you do not need to struggle alone or find your way out of this alone – in actual fact, you’re not meant to. Grief has a voice and it needs to be heard to be validated. I created ‘Holding Hope’ to be a brave and safe space in which to do just that.

‘Holding Hope’ is four week offering comprising of 4 x weekly 90 minute group grief circles, weekly emails and 1 x 1:1 90 minute appointment with me.
You’ll also receive and a printable guide to use as part of your weekly reflection and contemplations.

In the witnessing of grief, we can begin to heal. We all need a safe space to talk it out, to explore and sometimes, yes to cry. A place where we don’t have to worry about upsetting someone else. A place where we don’t have to out on a happy front. A place to speak our truth.
For many people, there are very few places where you can feel truly free to express your grief in a safe place and be witnessed in it without need to make it more palatable for people to hear or see.

I know for me, some of the most powerfully healing and deeply transformational conversations I’ve experienced have been with people who were witnessing my grief in its most pure form. Who held space for me, who didn’t look away, who didn’t try to ‘fix’ what I was saying, who didn’t dilute, or respond with their advice, or own experience of what I should or shouldn’t be doing.

'Is Holding Hope for me?' you may be asking yourself.
If you find yourself downplaying your grief in an attempt to make others’ comfortable, or maybe you know that you suppress your grief or avoid sitting with your feelings and emotions – then this will be a brave space for you to lean into your grief.

If you feel like people are often uncomfortable by your grief, you feel alone in your experience of grief or like people don’t understand what you’re going through – then this is a safe space to come and be with your grief.

Or maybe the loss you experiences was some time ago and you don’t have space to be able to share your experience of grief – then and now. Maybe you just want a safe space to share their name, their memory and your love – then this is the sacred space to speak their name.

If you’re looking for tangible ways to nurture, express and honour your grief – then this is the nourishing space to come and build a relationship with your grief that allows you to remember with more love than pain.

‘Holding Hope’ starts next Thursday 25th November and runs over 4 weeks with all calls taking place via Zoom.

• Thursday 25th November 2021
• Thursday 2nd December 2021
• Thursday 9th December 2021
• Thursday 16th December 2021

All calls take place at 8pm – 9:30pm AEDT

Each week we have a particular theme that will be our focus, you’ll have received this theme as part of your reflection guide for the week. You can expect a guided meditation each week as well as an opportunity to learn some strategies and heart tools to carry with you as you navigate and tend to your grief.
You’ll always be invited to share, but never made to – that’s not how brave nor safe spaces are created. What a nourishing offer ahead of the festive season – a time that can be really challenging to navigate for many.
It would be my honour and my privilege to hold you and your grief

Investment

1 x full payment $395AUD | Early bird price $345 AUD
2 x fortnight payments $205AUD | Early bird price $180 AUD

Send me a DM if you’d like to discuss more, or you can register at www.thegriefluminary.com/holding-hope

Each person’s grief is as unique as their fingerprint. But what everyone has in common is that no matter how they grieve, they share a need for their grief to be witnessed.- David Kessler “We run from grief because loss scares us, yet your hearts reach toward grief because the broken parts want ...

16/11/2021

{why the grief luminary?}
There’s a few new faces around here so I thought I’d share why I started The Grief Luminary. Firstly, thank you for being here, it’s not lost on me why you’re here, so thank you for choosing to seek refuge amongst these words and images.

I created The Grief Luminary because I want to change the narrative, and experience, of trauma, loss and grief. I created The Grief Luminary because I wish it existed when I was in the depths of my own grief.

Like you, I know what it’s like to sit in the depths of darkness. I know what it’s like to feel like you’re being swallowed up by life. When life just continues on and you’re left on your knees feeling the life force sucked out of your backbone.

When you’re not sure if you’ll be able to see out your eyes by morning because you’ve soaked through another pillowcase with silent (and no so silent tears) and when you feel like you’re almost living outside of your body - watching your unrecognisable self attempt to interact with the world around her - feeling numb, detached and exhausted, at the same time being unable to reach the light switch to feel or see life any differently.

I want The Grief Luminary, and the spaces I create within it, to be that light switch for you.

Being intimately acquainted with death and loss alters your perspectives on life.
I mean, how could it not?!
It changes everything. Knowing death, seeing death, sitting with it, thinking about it and understanding it - my grief (and my work) has changed my life. Profoundly.

Rather than people fearing their grief and being afraid to sit with it, I want people to see it for what it is - love.
That grief is actually the medicine, it’s the antidote to what we’re all experiencing.
We only need to choose to build a relationship with it, rather than against it

I want you to know that I see you. I hear you and I feel you. Deeply. And I’ve got you, whenever you’re ready to choose a different way.

Holding you and your precious heart,
Xx