Grief and Belonging: Connecting to the Living World
Remembering. Returning. Rooting.
This work is rooted in ancient knowing and emergent healing. It is therapy, yes—but also conversation, ceremony, and reconnection. The foundations below guide every offering I share, whether we meet in a one-on-one session, a group gathering, or in silent reflection with the more-than-human world.
These aren’t just ideas. They are invitations back to what you already know in your bones.
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Anima Mundi — The Soul of the World
The Earth is not just our environment. She is a Living Presence—with a soul, a desire, a rhythm. The ancients called her Anima Mundi: the Soul of the World.
When we slow down and listen deeply, we remember that all things—stones and rivers, children and ancestors—are part of One Great Breathing Body. This work invites you to tune your heart to that pulse. Healing begins when we remember we are not separate.
You belong to the Living World. She has not forgotten you.
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Belonging — The Wound and the Way
We are living in a time of spiritual dislocation. Many of us have been taught to live in exile—from each other, from the Earth, and even from ourselves. This creates a kind of soul-sickness: a loneliness we struggle to find medicine for.
The path of healing is not a return to the past, but a remembering of what has never ceased to be true. You Belong. To your people. To the Soil. To the Waters. To the lineage of the Living and the Dead.
You are not alone and never were.
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Grief — The Threshold of Return
Grief is not the enemy. It is not a detour on the path—it is the path.
Grief is how we metabolize loss. It’s how we remember love. It is the underground stream that flows beneath every threshold of transformation, calling us back again and again to our renewal. When we allow grief, we allow life to move through us again. And in that movement, we are guided back to what truly nourishes us: connection, tenderness, wonder.
Grief is not the end. It is the beginning of remembering.
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Collective — The Courage to Heal Together
Healing is not a solo endeavor. The myth of the self-made, self-healed person is a lie we’ve inherited. In truth, we are shaped in relationship—we are wounded in relationship—we are healed in relationship.
This work honors the wisdom and medicine of community. The quiet honesty of saying: We can’t do this alone. We will not do this alone.
Together, we reclaim an ancient way.
We don’t return to Belonging alone. We go together—or not at all.
A Living Practice
These are not static principles—they are living practices. They show up in the way we hold space, the kinds of questions we ask, and the way we witness our collective stories. They ask something of us all: presence, humility, and a willingness to return again and again to what is foundational, nourishing, true.