The Grief Well was created to provide accessible spaces for folks to bring their grief out of the shadows and into compassionate community settings that offer an opportunity for exploration, sharing, and witnessing. At the well we offer suggestions about how to nurture a kinship with grief. 

While our experience of loss is unique, sharing our grief reminds us that we are all grieving and we can find ourselves in one another. This vulnerable connection is what brings us together. The more we engage with grief, the more space it has to change within us. Ebbing and flowing like the waves, we learn how to ride the current of loss, feeling more resourced and validated. Grief is the most humanizing experience and it is best considered in community. 

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At The Grief Well we believe:
 

• That you are the expert in your grief experience and tending to your grief effectively requires you to tune into your innate wisdom. This requires a slower pace and listening inward.

• That slowing down and tuning into what is arising from moment to moment will guide you to appropriate connection and expression of your grief. The way to best care for yourself in the face of loss will be revealed. 

• That by sharing your grief you don't become more sad, rather you begin to see yourselves in the experience of others. This recognition serves to normalize the grief experience and also communicates to others that they are not alone.

• That through connecting with your grief and sharing it with others when appropriate you can be witnessed in your grief - you can be seen, you can be heard, and you can open up to the care of others. This witnessing is the medicine for grief.

• Most grief can be tended to by listening inward and sharing grief with trusted others. If your grief gets complicated and you feel overwhelmed and stuck in your experience of loss, connecting with a mental health care professional is recommended.