Don't grieve alone. Mourning Together can help you get through the night, to the next morning, together.
HELLO DEAR ONE!
A welcome note from Helen Blodgett
Founder of Mourning Together.
It is so hard to live with losses, life transitions, and trauma. I admire the endurance we exhibit in making it through each day that insistently asks us to proceed as if everything is ok.
Because of the incredible strength and transformations I see in people integrating their losses, I believe that attending to our grief is the first step in taking actions that are aligned with our soul growth. As devastated as we feel, we want to understand times of mourning as the exact time to show more community love, share all emotions, and find the new center that we move from- more aligned with our soul growth. It’s all that, and we can get there in many ways- sometimes by just curling up in a ball and crying.
In my own life, I’ve found that unless I make time to reflect on and discuss my emotions and the insights they spark, those insights and the transformative power they offer me fade away. We make our insights lasting and part of the solid ground we move from by giving our sustained attention to them. This is what we’re doing in the Mourning Together online community!
I’m offering a space for people in grief to give their sustained attention to their feelings, observe the insights that always do come in, take action, and support one another in this sacred work.
After 11 years of working as a teaching artist in NYC public schools, I moved with my family to be closer to my parents and extended family in Minnesota. The time I spent guiding children in making art was so full of connection and joy! So often, children intuitively know how to express themselves authentically through art. As adults, we’re divided up into artists (who can still create freely) and non-artists (who were told they didn’t have artistic skill and believed it).
Yet, these categories don’t serve anyone. Each of us has full access to the divine. Art is our conversation with the sacred- it has nothing to do with skill at realistic rendering or nailing a choreography. We can use writing, art, dance, and theater as a language to express our true feelings and find meaning. We’re not putting on a show! We’re not judging the final product. We’re taking back art-making for all people- our original language of the soul.
This community is an opportunity to be with people who have also prioritized their feelings and have experienced deep loss(s). You don’t need to put on a happy face here. We welcome you and everything you’re feeling. You can set down the heavy loads you’ve been carrying and feel at home.
How I arrived at offering my gift
How people feel after a 1:1 Mourning Together Session
Through the sacred space you help create, and being able to talk out loud with you as this grief shifts and changes, my connection to spirit and the love of its expression is rekindling. There is still pain and confusion to work through, but I feel safer giving myself the time to go through what is necessary and not try to rush or push it away. I have so much appreciation for what you offer a person struggling with loss. -JMO
Thank you!! I never expected to be in the situation I ended up in. So much pain in leaving my partner and myself in many ways. It felt natural to go to the river. Thank you for the invitation and your prescence, asking me to release and see things more clearly.
-Isaac
When my family sold our home, we utilized Helen's services to help make the process more healing and transforming rather than traumatizing and stress inducing. We all were able to release our emotional attachment to the property and move on in in a more healthy and loving way. I would recommend her services to anyone that wants to move on to new things in a healthy and healing way. -Curtis
Life is so busy-Reasons to attend to your grief
Grief is love, without your beloved person to express that love to. Expressing your grief is honoring your love.
Even the strongest feelings change. Unexpressed feelings of grief keep us returning to our suffering from this loss. Expressing it helps us expand into acceptance and meaning and new possibilities.
Unattended grief is stored in our bodies, often making us sick. Let's release it and tend to our grief as deep self-care.
Coming together from different points in our grief journeys, we can provide hope for others who can't find any hope in that moment in their journey.
Grateful for David Kessler's work on grief that informed this section.
All traumas, including generational traumas, have corresponding grief. We give space to process this type of grief as well as more recognized types of losses.
In a generally grief-illiterate society, in Mourning Together, we learn from one another how to be that circle of love that we all need when we are experiencing grief.
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Grief Templates for those in grief-
Communicate what you need and don't need, and keep your circle of supporters involved in the way you want them to be.
Grief Templates for supporters of those in grief-
Your resource for saying the right thing in tough times.
We know that no template can take the place of well-considered words from a friend or loved one. We created these templates as the starting point, for you to lovingly personalize for your beloved one in grief.
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