What happens if you step into someone else's time of intensity and heightened emotion before examining your own experiences? What effects might "hidden motivations" have on your care capacity? The truth? It's not actually possible to become "fully healed" or an "empty vessel." Arguably, it's not even helpful to hold onto these ideas as aspirations.… Continue reading Hidden Influences & Agenda Checks
For me, it’s a beautiful undertaking to study grief care and provide direct support to those facing loss. It’s been a different sort of challenge, though, to live grief while immersed in the field. But that’s what fate had in mind. Back in early February, I was finishing my manuscript and arranging the first print… Continue reading Living a Loss
There are countless reasons to strengthen community grief care. Here are five to embrace and enact today. #1. Grief is both Universal and Deeply Personal The community grief support I provide is rooted in this truth. There’s value in learning about loss and also in exploring our personal reactions to it.A grief care client expressed… Continue reading Beliefs Worth Backing
Francesca Lynn Arnoldy 