GROWLOVE: Compassion. Awareness. Nature.

Welcome to GROWLOVE: Compassion. Awareness. Nature.

GROWLOVE offers opportunities to come together and learn about cultivating compassion,
expanding awareness and caring for grief while utilizing the healing essence of nature. 

Cultivating Compassion and Expanding Awareness can facilitate the integration of life experiences, build resources for
resilience, and help us develop a caring relationship with the losses we encounter in a lifetime.
We must acknowledge our grief and be willing to offer compassion while we open and offer healing space for it.
Healing involves embodying and integrating the pain to help us emerge with more of our wholeness.

Grief is one of our wisest teachers. When we meet and witness grief,
it softens, integrates, and transforms us.

The emotions within loss and grief aren't the issue - it is how we relate to the emotions.
Compassion and Awareness are invaluable tools to help us develop a relationship with grief.
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GROWLOVE is ...
  • an opportunity to learn how to intentionally care for loss and grief by cultivating compassion and expanding awareness.
  • a movement to help others understand the importance of facing toward, acknowledging, and caring for grief. In doing so, we learn how to live from our heart portal and become available to our wholeness.
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Come participate in a GROWLOVE activity to:
  • Grow your understanding:  learn about the principles of compassion and four areas of awareness. 
  • Practice  Portaling (i.e., expanding) Awareness & Cultivating Compassion within a sitting meditation and while on a mindful nature walk. Feel the elements of nature ground your body, slow your mind, open your heart space, and help you expand awareness as you create a compassionate space of care for yourself and others.
  • Experience how awareness and compassion care for grief, build resilience, and connect us to our wholeness and each other.
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​GROWLOVE CHALLENGES:

GROWLOVE CHALLENGES are all about kind connection in action. Thoughts, words, and actions have power.  The power to care—or not. The power to connect—or not.  The power to see and hear each other—or not. The power to spread and grow love and light—or not.
 
A GROWLOVE challenge invites you to  cultivate and spread what we need to grow ... awareness, compassion and connection.

Land artist David Allen, Stone Point Studio, constructed PORTAL, and it stands in a field on Wells Reserve at Laudholm, Wells, ME.

While on the Wells Reserve, Elizabeth's attention was repeatedly pulled toward David Allen's land art titled 'Portal' ... she felt the tender and fierce energy of compassion resonating from the sculpture. After completing her compassion certification through the Center for Compassion, Altruism, Research, and Education (CCARE, Stanford University), she felt called to use Portal as a vector for compassion and grief offerings. Portal, a noun, was changed to a verb, portaling  whereby 'portaling awareness' refers to 'expanding awareness' which results in cultivating compassion, love, and light.

Elizabeth paired Dr. Daniel Siegel's Wheel of Awareness tool (Mindsight Institute) with CCARES compassion principles and her book, Joy at the Edges of Grief, to offer evidenced-based and nature-infused compassion, awareness, and grief mediations, walks, and workshops. 

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Mission

 Raise consciousness by cultivating compassion and expanding awareness with the intention to help others meet and care for loss and grief.
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Educate others on how to develop a caring relationship with loss and grief. 

Vision

,An aware, kind, and regulation-informed world that embraces compassion, awareness, and nature as tools to care for loss and grief as we all genuinely connect with ourselves and each other.

Values


Compassion, Awareness, Embodiment, Resilience,  Connection,  Community

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GROWLOVE Intention

"Nature awakens us to earth’s wonders while reminding us ​to be exactly where we are in each moment”        -Elizabeth A. Straka
GROWLOVE INTENTION
GROWLOVE Portaling Awareness is what we do. We take time to Cultivate Compassion and Portal Awareness (i.e., expand, nurture, and nourish our wholeness). We use nature as the tool to open our heart, body, and mind as we acknowledge and care for loss and grief.
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Cultivating Compassion and Portaling Awareness heightens our awareness, shifts our energetic field, and attunes us to our senses, body, thoughts, feelings, and connections.

When we take time to portal (expand) awareness, we ground and connect to ourselves, become more present, and tune into ourselves and all humanity. We learn the importance of acknowledging and caring for our wholeness which includes loss and grief. 

Each of us must do our loss and grief work for our collective to shift. Imagine each of us as a single thread of our humanity, knowing we are all part of a larger fabric. As each of us intentionally tends to our thread, our collective fabric changes, our frequency shifts, healing is kindled, and consciousness rises,

Our individual wounds tend to stack up when pushed down or away and our collective wounds and suffering continue to deeped as they persist. GROWLOVE offers opportunities for us to come together to respond to suffering as we learn how to care for our individual and collective grief. 
 
I have chosen to step back, create space, in awareness and compassion for grief. GROWLOVE asks others to step back and create space… let's intentionally acknowledge and care for loss and grief with awareness, compassion and nature as our tools. Caring for our loss and grief can make a difference when our individual efforts energetically align and come together.

I encourage others to Cultivate Compassion and Portal Awareness in Nature (CCPAIN) – I invite all of us to learn about and utilize Compassion, Awareness, and Nature as tools to care for loss and grief.

​The ingredients of compassion, awareness and nature can grow love and heal. Love is our innate resource for loss and grief ... let's connect back to it!
                                     
​“Though now addicted to security, comfort and managing uncertainty, our culture could
learn to honour, teach and live grief as a skill, as vital to our personal, community
​and spiritual life as the skill of loving.”    Stephen Jenkinson                               

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