My own life, and my work as a biographer, have led me to conclude that there is a whopping backlog of ungrieved losses packed inside everyone; the sooner we set about this work, the better. And, we need to help each other through it.
Since 2015, I have hosted a healing circle in Black Mountain. In December, 2017, Mountain Xpress wrote a little piece about my work.
I bring decades of work with the soul aspects of grieving, including workshops I've taken with Sobonfu Some (2015), Frances Weller (2016), Laurence Cole (2017), Robert Sardello, Ph.D. as well as their books. In a 2017 private session with Malidoma Some, we had a great conversation about the necessity of "watering" human stories with tears and grief. "You cannot tell the human story without it," he said, chuckling. I also draw deeply from the writings of Martin Prechtel.
Beginning in 2015, before the pandemic, I co-presented a grief and forgiveness workshop at the Wild Goose Festival in Hot Springs, NC with my dear friend, Lyndon Harris, a priest on site when the Twin Towers were struck in 2001. He remained at St. Paul's Chapel on Ground Zero for the next nine months, serving the first-responders.
Further back in time, I have worked with the ability to face and feel grief since I was a teenager and lost a parent to gun violence. Since then, I've helped several relatives pass over, and served for nearly three years as a volunteer for CarePartners Hospice, singing and playing the harp at the bedside of hospice patients. In 2013, yet another grief entered my life when my beautiful 29-year-old daughter leapt out of her body in a vehicle accident. I don't want to talk about her death because my daughter is so much more than a death date, a death story. After you have taken time to get to know me, shown yourself to be a trustworthy person, then, and only then, ask me who she was and stand in your own conscious awareness while I tell you about her beauty, her vibrancy, my broken heart, my ongoing connection with her.
Develop beginner's mind about how to approach a grieving person.
Aside from the personal grief we all hold, then there is the daily news. So you see, with each passing day we become more aware of the need for each of us to have not just one tool for which to work with grief, but an entire toolbox, and each of us are tools needed by the others.
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Since 2015, I have hosted a healing circle in Black Mountain. In December, 2017, Mountain Xpress wrote a little piece about my work.
I bring decades of work with the soul aspects of grieving, including workshops I've taken with Sobonfu Some (2015), Frances Weller (2016), Laurence Cole (2017), Robert Sardello, Ph.D. as well as their books. In a 2017 private session with Malidoma Some, we had a great conversation about the necessity of "watering" human stories with tears and grief. "You cannot tell the human story without it," he said, chuckling. I also draw deeply from the writings of Martin Prechtel.
Beginning in 2015, before the pandemic, I co-presented a grief and forgiveness workshop at the Wild Goose Festival in Hot Springs, NC with my dear friend, Lyndon Harris, a priest on site when the Twin Towers were struck in 2001. He remained at St. Paul's Chapel on Ground Zero for the next nine months, serving the first-responders.
Further back in time, I have worked with the ability to face and feel grief since I was a teenager and lost a parent to gun violence. Since then, I've helped several relatives pass over, and served for nearly three years as a volunteer for CarePartners Hospice, singing and playing the harp at the bedside of hospice patients. In 2013, yet another grief entered my life when my beautiful 29-year-old daughter leapt out of her body in a vehicle accident. I don't want to talk about her death because my daughter is so much more than a death date, a death story. After you have taken time to get to know me, shown yourself to be a trustworthy person, then, and only then, ask me who she was and stand in your own conscious awareness while I tell you about her beauty, her vibrancy, my broken heart, my ongoing connection with her.
Develop beginner's mind about how to approach a grieving person.
Aside from the personal grief we all hold, then there is the daily news. So you see, with each passing day we become more aware of the need for each of us to have not just one tool for which to work with grief, but an entire toolbox, and each of us are tools needed by the others.
Click here to send Sheridan an email.
