7 minMoving Forward in Grief: Types and TimelinesGrief is not a linear process to get through. What are the rules? How will we feel happy, less alone, lost, flooded with surprise feelings?
8 minGrief Lifting, Shifting from Grief to LivingThe between of Grief and Living, holding and not holding. When we start to shift from deep grief, it can feel off. Where are they? Who am I?
5 minSacred Rituals and Science for Inner Peace: Creating Spiritual Practices to Ease WorriesSacred rituals, science intertwine for inner peace. When we create meaningful, simple, repeatable practices, we ease worries, gain clarity.
14 minGrief Questions: Shame, Blame, Guilt SpiralsWhat to do with grief emotions and challenges that shift, layer like the weather. Spirals of Love, Shame, Blame, Guilt? Birdi shares a story
6 minCommunion: Wind, The Birth of a PoemWe expect poetry to bring emotions, senses to life in a way that makes the words in the poem disappear, opening a portal, connecting us.
8 minThe Labyrinth's GiftSo, here we were, dog and me, at this labyrinth, down the street from my home, newly placed, like it was put there just for me
5 minInner Thanksgiving and KaddishWhat is Inner Thanksgiving? And no, Kaddish is not a recipe, or maybe it is?. When my cousin comes for Thanksgiving, he will be taking a...
5 minImpermanence and no selfA Contemplation about impermanence - how can we understand we are whole and also not a separate self?
6 minNuthatch LegacySigns, Symbols, Stories we tell ourselves vs. Being the Witness: through the lens of grief and loss Rowan passed away at home on a Monday...
2 minWe ask Who AM I Now? "I wish I could go back to the way things were," or "Who I was when," or "How I was and how things were..." Here is a link to my sister...