In the conversations I’ve been having with folks around grief, every single person has described grieving more than one thing at once.

There’s often a whole pile of losses, changes, and transitions to navigate + sort through.

Which means the grief is layered + complex.

And that it often feels really big + overwhelming + confusing.

But the good news is that grief only ever asks us to start where we are.

To tell the truth as it’s happening in our bodies now.

To take the one right next step toward allowing the feelings + meeting our aliveness where it is.

To let the energy move, settle, flow, and be exactly as it is -- and allow ourselves to move, settle, flow, and be exactly as we are.

Because grief isn’t an impossible problem we’re trying to solve.

It’s a collection of brave + tiny steps into the truth of our experience.

Exactly as it is right now.

So these are the questions I start with:

What’s real now?

What am I feeling now?

What do I need now?

And how can I bring presence, permission, and spaciousness to all of it and let that be enough?