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Clear Mourning

A non-profit dedicated to shifting the culture of grief through awareness, innovation, & support.

06/03/2026

Grief changes more than your emotions.

It changes your heart.
It changes your body.
It changes your capacity.
It changes the way you move through the world.

In this powerful moment from Enduring Grief, Pixie Lighthorse reminds us that grief is an inside job. When we stop fighting it and allow ourselves to feel what is real, it may feel harder before it feels healing.

Your productivity may change.
Your relationships may change.
Your sense of self may change.
Your expectations of who you are supposed to be may have to soften.

But that transformation is not failure.

It is part of what grief asks of us.

This conversation is a gentle reminder that grief is not something to rush, fix, or carry alone. It is something that needs care, witness, patience, and community.

Listen to the full episode of Enduring Grief with Pixie Lighthorse, author, poet, teacher, and grief tender whose work helps people build honest relationships with grief, healing, nature, and community.

06/02/2026

Sometimes grief feels so overwhelming because love does not just disappear when someone dies.

The relationship changes.

Life changes.

Your world changes.

But the love is still there.

Still wanting somewhere to land.

Still looking for the person you used to call.

Still showing up in memories, habits, routines, and ordinary moments.

And that can feel incredibly painful.

Because grief is not only sadness.

It is love continuing after loss.

Love with nowhere familiar to go.

Love learning how to exist in a different way now.

And that kind of love can feel very heavy sometimes.

05/29/2026

Missing someone can change the shape of your days.

The quiet can feel different.

Ordinary moments can feel heavier.

Even small things can remind you of what is no longer there.

And sometimes that kind of missing follows you into everything.

Into mornings.

Into routines.

Into holidays.

Into the parts of life that used to feel normal.

But even though loss changes your life, it does not erase the love.

The love is still here.

In your memories.

In your body.

In the way you still carry them with you.

And maybe that is part of grief too.

Learning how to live with both.

The missing.

And the love.

05/28/2026

Camp Courage is a place where grieving kids can feel seen, supported, and a little less alone.

This free 3.5 day camp in Bend is designed for grieving children ages 6 to 12, offering smaller peer groups, personal artwork, music, dance, outdoor activities, and age appropriate ways to express grief while celebrating the life of someone they love.

At Camp Courage, kids are given space to feel, create, connect, and remember in a safe and caring environment.

Sign up here: ClearMourning.org

Camp Courage 2026
June 22 to 25
Free for grieving children ages 6 to 12
Sponsored by Partners In Care

05/27/2026

Some days grief feels quieter.

You answer texts.

You go to work.

You laugh at something for a moment and almost feel like yourself again.

And then there are other days.

Days where getting out of bed feels heavy.

Days where missing them shows up in everything.

In small moments.

In ordinary moments.

In the moments nobody else can see.

Grief can move back and forth like that.

Some days you carry it well.

And some days it carries you.

Neither makes you weak.

Neither means you are failing.

It just means you are human.

And you are still learning how to live with loss while continuing to live your life too.

05/26/2026

What if grief is not something we are meant to outrun?

In this deeply moving episode of Enduring Grief, Sarah sits down with Marlis and Dean for a conversation about love, loss, refuge, and the brave work of learning how to keep breathing when life feels too heavy.

Together, they explore the difference between real refuge and false escape, the fear that can come with grief, the importance of asking for help, and the small daily practices that can remind us we are not alone.

One of the most powerful reminders from this conversation is that grief exists because love exists. Everything we love will one day change, end, or leave us in some way. And yet, choosing to love anyway is part of the human journey.

This episode is for anyone who is carrying loss, supporting someone in grief, or trying to find one small place inside the pain where they can breathe again.

Listen to the full conversation now on Enduring Grief.

Visit www.clearmourning.org to learn more about Clear Mourning and the support available for those facing traumatic loss.

05/25/2026

Sometimes people talk about grief like it is something you are supposed to fix.
Something to “move on” from.
Something to complete.
But grief does not always work that way.
Because when you lose someone you love, the loss becomes part of your reality.
Part of your story.
Part of the way you move through the world now.
And learning how to live with that can take time.
A lot of time.
Some days you may carry it quietly.
Some days it may feel heavy again in ways you did not expect.
That does not mean you are doing grief wrong.
It means love mattered.
And it still does.

05/22/2026

If grief had an ingredient list, what would be on yours?

Sometimes we think grief is only sadness.

But grief can hold so much more than that.

Love.

Attachment.

Fear.

Hope.

Identity.

Memory.

Longing.

Change.

Grief can touch the way we see ourselves, the way we move through the world, and even the future we thought we would have.

And maybe one of the most important things to remember is this:

So many of these experiences are shared.

Not because every grief story is the same.

But because being human means loving, hoping, losing, remembering, and carrying things that matter deeply to us.

Maybe grief and love were never as separate as we thought.

Maybe they have always been walking together.

05/21/2026

Divorce grief can be complicated because it is so easy to get stuck in the story.

What they did.

What you did not see coming.

What should have happened.

What you lost.

And honestly, sometimes that anger makes sense. Sometimes the sadness makes sense. Sometimes feeling like the victim feels safer than admitting you have to figure out who you are now.

But there is also this tender little window after everything changes where you get to decide what story you want to carry forward.

Not because what happened did not hurt.

Not because it was fair.

Not because you have to pretend you are fine.

But because twenty years from now, you deserve to be more than the worst thing that happened in that relationship.

You deserve to be able to say, “It did not work out, and it broke my heart in ways I did not expect, but I found myself again.”

This conversation with Steph Kafoury is about divorce grief, identity, healing, and learning how to move from “we” to “me” one small step at a time.

Listen to the full episode here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/divorce-grief-how-to-heal-rebuild-and-find-yourself/id1773858621?i=1000768552833

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