Flourishing Seeds Wellness

There are those kinds of losses that are met with care. People show up, meals are dropped off, and messages come in. There's space, however imperfect that space is, for the pain to exist. Then there are those losses that don't get that same acknowledgement, instead they go unsupported, unnamed, and unrecognized. Those losses you carry all on your own. This is what is often referred to as disenfrancised grief. That grief that isn't openly acknowledged, socially supported, or

Grief is one of the most universal and deeply personal experiences we go through as humans.  No matter how much we try to prevent it, it touches every culture, age, and stage of life.  Yet, despite how common it is, grief often feels isolating, confusing, and difficult to explain.  It can feel crazy-making and crushing, leaving people asking the same question when it arrives, “what is happening to me?”, or even worse, “what is wrong with me?”   At its core, grief is the emoti

After completing my Grief Educator Certificate Program with David Kessler, and as I continue working toward my Death Doula Certificate, I couldn’t help but reflect on how little we actually talk about grief, death, and loss.  This reflection led me to commit to a blog series devoted to these subjects.  This will just be the first of that series.   Most of us have been quietly taught, from a very young age, that grief and death are things you don’t talk about.  They’re uncomfo