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Free download for those in grief: templates to communicate your needs and limits while you are mourning.
Free download for supporters of those in grief: Ask your beloved one in grief how to help in a way that doesn't further weigh them down.
We are so glad you're here, even though you didn't want to be
You are so welcome. Welcome to feel everything you're feeling and express it. When your world feels upside down, attending to your grief helps you find a path forward.
In Mourning Together spaces, we share our experiences and listen to one another. We don't rush anyone to move forward- we understand that grief makes us expand our capacity to love and adapt. We know waves of grief can come at any time. Our community is here to provide shelter when those waves of grief come. When you tend to your grief, we know you will find a new way of being, with the beauty of a full range of emotions.
How I arrived at my gift
It has been a long journey to validate my own grief and attend to it.
The result has been to arrive at a place where I feel aligned with my strengths and how I can offer them to my community. Please see the Prezi presentation if you would like more detail about my own path.
MY APPROACH
Make space to feel grief and tend to the insights that come with it.
No judgement. What we we feel cannot be right or wrong- what we feel is a soul message. Soul messages help us find our path.
It can be messy to express what we feel- especially the feelings that are not acceptable to society. But in expressing all feelings, we release their hold over us. Feelings are not frozen, not part of our identity forever. The more we tend to our feelings, the more we can find the message in them and take actions that cultivate life for us and our community.
Three ways to connect
1:1 sessions- Let's go to the river and grieve
In person in Minneapolis/Saint Paul metro area. Video call sessions available as well. 1st time- schedule a discovery call.
Group Sessions- Sunday Morning Together
In person in Minneapolis/Saint Paul metro area.Sign up for the group and I'll email you the location. Sundays 7:00-8:00am
Online Community
Express how you're feeling and receive support, any time. We invite you to access spirit and insight through the language of the soul- art.
From the Soul Work Report
On choosing the Mourning Together name
On the Mourning Together name and logo.
When I was working on naming this project that my soul kept asking me to create, I took my time and let myself observe messages that would come through in day to day life. I went through a couple other potential names and decided on Mourning Together. I had been listening to the podcast, Good Mourning, and in my mind, I congratulated the founders on finding a perfect name. While I know they mean to say that mourning is ultimately good for us, I later critiqued the “good” because it is a value judgment, and we truly need to withhold judgment on ourselves and others in this liminal stage- there is no right way to grieve. But I love the double meaning in the words Mourning and Morning. It speaks to the freedom we find in clearly stating when we are in a state of mourning- in a society that wants us to keep it private and handle it ourselves. By declaring we are in mourning, we create a new start for ourselves- a morning.
As I was defining what I wanted our online grief support community space to be, I kept coming back to community. My vision is to create a safe space where we can gently teach one another how to be the loving village we need in times of grief. Mourning Together. Immediately, I imagined us having mornings together- which inspired the name for our live sessions- Sunday Mourning Together. Mornings are so powerful when we are up and moving intentionally. Dawn is similarly a liminal state. Dawn is when we transition from our dreams (our spirit life) into our everyday life, as conducted by our body/mind and network of relationships. So we will support our body/mind, spirit, and relationships in the Mourning Together online community.
I did pause at the natural abbreviation of MT for Mourning Together. Spoken, it sounds like empty. But the more I thought about it, the more it felt appropriate. After a loss, we often feel so lonely and empty. And deeper, from Francis Weller’s “The Wild Edge of Sorrow”:
When you find a channel for your rage and deepest suffering, and there’s another hand there reaching back, what lies in the wake of it all, is finally- blessed peace. Calm. Nothing has changed about your loss…it’s still there. But your relationship with it has been greatly altered. You have been heard and held tenderly. You have been drained. And then you can open yourself up again. You can start to rebuild in that annihilated place” (Weller, p84).
How beautiful! What a way to capture that feeling in words. May this be our way forward: Listening and supporting and expressing- together.
When I grieve I am surrounded by family reassuring me that the grieving is worthwhile and I can grieve as much as I want. We experience conflicts, loved ones die or suffer, dreams never manifest, illnesses occur, relationships break up, and there are unexpected natural disasters. It is so important to have ways to release those pains to keep clearing ourselves. Hanging on to old pain just makes it grow until it smothers our creativity, our joy, and our ability to connect with others. It may even kill us. Often my community uses grief rituals to heal wounds and open us to spirit’s call.
- Sobonfu Somé
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