Hi dear one,
If you are feeling a sense of heaviness this holiday season, you’re not alone. As festive as it is to bake sugar cookies and sing carols, the holidays have a way of amplifying the places within us that feel tender or unresolved. It is not of the mind’s doing, it is the nature of our grief. If this feels hard to hold, you’re in the right place. This is why this will be my 5th year supporting those grieving.
Here’s what I want to remind you: there isn’t a manual for sorrow. All we can do is slow down and listen ten layers deeper to the ache. That part of us knows exactly what to do to regrow.
I’m here to walk with your grief. To offer your emotions an unapologetic space to breathe, soften, rupture, and rest. And together, we will listen for your next steps in living more meaningfully.
Below are my holiday offerings, now till December 12.
“To honor our grief, to grant it space and time in our frantic world, is to fulfill a covenant with soul”
No matter what you are enduring: estrangement, a loss of a loved one, a terminal diagnosis, a break up or divorce, chronic illness, loss of identity, homesickness, miscarriage, or a general sense of dread, etc. You are allowed to fall apart, meaningfully.
This offering ends at midnight on Friday, December 12.
“To anyone looking to their journeying of healing around grief, I would say to 100000% percent reach out to Melinda for her services. Melinda’s intentionality in how she holds her grief sessions is so kind, beautiful, and unique.”
“I don’t know that I’d be standing or that I would be able to navigate my loss with any form of grace if it were not for Melinda’s grief coaching.”
“I feel like I’m reaching my potential regularly, but am still making incremental improvements along the way. I believe that investing in increasing my inner awareness so that I can live deliberately and move intentionally towards my life’s purpose is the most important thing I ever started doing for myself.”
“Melinda leads with endless compassion and has the powerful gift of truly allowing everyone to show up exactly as they are. She creates a space where people can safely and openly look at and share their most painful losses and questions without any judgment. This [work] does not ask you to fix anything. Instead it gives you the chance to be seen, supported and accepted as you are. This is a rare opportunity, and it has been transformational.
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“Coming to trust the darkness takes time and often involves many visits to this land. Our arrival here is rarely a chosen thing. What we make of this visit is up to us. Recalling that the darkness is also a dwelling place of the sacred allows us to find value in the descent.
In this place of lightlessness, we develop a second sight.”