Welcome. I am so grateful you are here.
Hello, my fellow tender-hearted human. Thank you for your courageous and vulnerable heart, your resilient spirit, and all that has led you here.
First, I want to honor your grief. Your beautiful, heavy heart. I don’t yet know what grief you carry, but I am grateful for it. It means you have experienced something worth grieving over. Grief is a natural part of all it means to be a human. If you have the courage to love and care deeply, then you will inevitably face the weight of loss.
Grief can look like so many different things. The death of a loved one, the ending of a relationship, the heartbreak of what you did not receive, the loss of yourself or the life you thought you’d have, the painful absence of community, the destruction of this planet, the violence and injustice of the world.
We live in a world where we are not taught how to be with our grief. How to tend to it. How to feel it. So when grief comes, we do what we have been taught: we numb, check out, avoid it, fear it, try to bypass it. In doing so, we miss out on the opportunity to learn from our grief.
Grief has the potential to teach us so much - about ourselves, the depth of our love and care, the resiliency of our spirit, our innate strength and courage.
These are vitally important lessons. They can challenge the narratives we have been taught to believe - about ourselves, our worth, what we deserve, what we are capable of.
And when that happens, we can shed those limiting beliefs, reconnect to our true selves, and step into our sovereignty.
Tending to our grief pushes the boundaries of our hearts.
It expands our capacity to feel.
In allowing ourselves to feel the depths of our grief and loss, our sorrow and longing, we expand our capacity for joy, gratitude, intimacy, and connection.
Deepening our capacity to love ourselves, our communities, and the world.
Offering us an opportunity to reconnect with the natural world, the sacred, and something bigger than ourselves.
We can reclaim our place in our own lives, and in the great web of life.
This is the medicine of grief.
I’m Jess
I am a mother, daughter, deeply-feeling human and student of grief.
My grief initiation began after the sudden death of my father 2.5 years ago. I was thrust into the unchartered waters of grief, left to navigate this loss alone.
In the process of tending to my own grief, I found so much sorrow and yet, so much richness too.
I reestablished my connection to myself, my body, the natural world, and the sacred.
I learned the importance of vulnerability, how sharing our grief with others can offer moments of soul-level connection we are often yearning for, but don’t know how to find.
I learned (and unlearned) so much about myself and the resiliency of my spirit.
Grief has been my deepest medicine and my greatest teacher.
I have come to view grief as sacred, holy ground. Grief offers an opportunity to tend to the soil of your soul, and return dirtier but wiser, more real, more true to you.
I am honored and humbled to support others in their grief journey, so they may experience the potent and sacred medicine of grief.