GRIEF & Bereavement Support Group-BW

09/02/2026

I know what it feels like to carry grief quietly while still showing up for life.

If you’ve been feeling heavy, tired, or emotionally overwhelmed, this retreat is for you.

Grief comes in many forms, loss of loved ones, relationships, work, identity, or direction.

This half day retreat is a soft landing space to pause, breathe, release, and gently begin healing.

If your heart whispered “I need this” when you saw this flyer, this space is for you.

Limited to 6–10 participants to keep the space intimate and safe.

Let’s heal AND light up everything within and without us

06/11/2025

That first year, you’re mostly numb.
You’re just doing what you’re supposed to—making it through holidays, paperwork, phone calls, trying to sleep, trying to eat.
You move through it like a checklist, one hard day at a time.
You think if you could just get through all the firsts, maybe it’ll start to hurt less.

Then the second-year hits, and the shock starts to fade.
You’re no longer running on adrenaline.
The finality of it starts to sink in.
You realize this isn’t just a bad dream you’ll wake up from. This is your life now.

But by now people have moved on.
They think you have too.
They don’t realize this is when you start to really feel it.
The support fades, the check-ins stop, and you start to understand how alone grief can make you feel.

After a while, it’s clear life keeps moving without you.
People are planning, laughing, living—and you’re still trying to figure out where you fit in now.
Nothing feels the same, no matter how much you try to make it.

And in this moment,
you stop waiting to feel like yourself again.
You just start learning how to live as who you are now.

This is the after the after.

03/11/2025

Leave a message for your mom in the C.S 🫂 ❤️

31/10/2025

“I sit with my grief. I mother it. I hold its small, hot hand. I don’t say, shhh. I don’t say, it’s okay. I wait until it is done having feelings. Then we stand and we go wash the dishes.” - Callista Buchen, from Taking Care

Comic by Art of JC 🤍

08/10/2025

Trauma gets stored in the body

Grief doesn’t just live in your mind. It settles into your body.

People talk about heartbreak like it’s emotional, but your body feels it too. The tension sits in your shoulders, your jaw, and the back of your neck, proof that grief lives everywhere, not just in your thoughts.

Your chest tightens because every breath reminds you—you’re still here and they’re not. Your stomach knots because loss floods your system with stress signals that never fully shut off.

You’re not imagining the exhaustion. Grief keeps your body in fight-or-flight long after the moment has passed. Your energy drains fast. Sleep doesn’t refresh you. Food tastes off. Some days you wake up sore like you’ve been running, even though you barely moved.

Your brain fog isn’t weakness. It’s your mind protecting you from overload. Concentration slips because your brain is busy trying to keep you upright in a world that no longer makes sense.

It shows up in headaches, tension, back pain—aches that doctors can’t trace. That’s your body remembering, holding, translating love into something physical.

You’re not lazy. You’re not broken. You’re grieving.

Your body is just keeping score.

01/10/2025

10/08/2025

Re imetswe… we need each other to survive!!
Let’s meet and share and comfort one another

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25/07/2025

“When parents die 💔, life changes forever. No matter how old we are, we feel like lost children—yearning for their hugs, warmth, and reassuring words.

Their love was our refuge, and without it, the world feels colder and harder. Even with our own families, nothing replaces the comfort of being someone’s child.

We carry their love, faces, and voices in our hearts, always. The child within us still longs for them. Losing parents leaves a pain that time can’t erase—a wound that never fully heals. It hurts at any age. “
😭🙏❤️

14/07/2025

Grief is an emotional experience-but it's not
ONLY an emotional experience.
Grief affects our minds.
Grief affects our bodies.
Grief affects our plans.
You'd be hard-pressed to find an area of life that isn't affected by grief.
No wonder it's exhausting.
Try to be gentle with yourself.