We offer loving witnessing, embodied presence, and the gift in non-judgmental listening.

Healing is a softening into the honesty of what is.

These intentional circles serve as the sacred containers for this unfolding.

Grateful.

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This helps us grow and reach the people in need of these conversations as soon as they need them.

Can I count on you to do that?

Awesome! Forever grateful.

griefandlight.com/podcast

We’re in this together.

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Nina

non-death related losses, how everyday grief impacts por lives, and how we can show up meaningfully in collective grief.

Each episode will feed your mind and nourish your soul. ✨

Can I ask you to do something? ⤵️

The door is open for you: grief-and-light-community.mn.co/share/Cf2lBE...

My heart is so full.

Thank you, universe.

More of this, please!

We’re in this together.
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Nina

This is how we get to carry their love light forward.

This is how we get to love them now that they’re gone.

This is how we evolve the public discourse around grief and loss.

This is how we move forward.

This is how we create a life worth living.

I’m grateful for these beautiful souls, for the space created by the @globalresiliencecommunity to share our stories in the form of an anthology, and for the opportunity to hug each other and celebrate in person! Seeing our faces on a billboard in Times Square was the confetti ✨

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That’s not an option. AND we’re incredibly grateful for these friendships forged by both grief, and our new-found joy.

As I always say, grief is not this OR that; it’s this AND that. It’s living in the both/and of life as we integrate the vastness of the human experience as it is.

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some of the wonderful souls with whom I’ve connected in the grief space, this time IRL in NYC to celebrate the launch of our co-authored book, RESILIENT A.F.🗽

It’s a layered reality to process—we wouldn’t have met if our people hadn’t died. We would do anything to get them back.

A tighter translation of the original, according to a footnote in this essay, would be “

…in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.”

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By validating our own grief we validate it for others in our beliefs, actions, and words.

Have you ever felt that your grief was invalidated? Let me know in the comments.

💜 Nina

If 10, 20, 40 years down the line you still feel a pang of grief, a wave, like missing them on their birthday, or while doing that activity they loved, or in the quiet moments—it’s all valid.

The heart and body often remember what the mind may have stored away.

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“out of nowhere” after they thought they had “finished grieving”.

Truth is that loss changed us profoundly in ways known and yet known.

Although the frequency and intensity may subside with time, there is a part that remains latent and does not abide by the rules of linear time.

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Whether the pressure to ‘move on’ comes from others, or from ruminating thoughts, I’m here to remind you that your grief is valid no matter how many years have passed since the loss.

Many grievers are taken aback when their grief unexpectedly arises seemingly

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