GROWLOVE: Activities

Welcome, I am glad you are here. We can grow love—cultivate compassion, heighten awareness, and care for loss and grief. 
​It begins with each of us caring for our wholeness and has the potential to magically expand to our collectiveness. 
Should you choose to participate in GROWLOVE PORTALING AWARENESS events, I hope you will discover
​ Compassion, Awareness and Nature are resources for our individual and collective grief.


Current and Emerging Events ...

​​Compassion & Grief Nature Walk
cultivate compassion ​to care for grief

 Activity consists of a sitting meditation followed by a
mindful nature walk  (~75 minutes)
Participants learn about compassion and awareness as a tool for grief. We begin with a discussion and sitting meditation followed by a mindful walk where we expand awareness and open space for loss and grief. Together we are held by nature while we hold compassionate space for the fabric of grief that must soften, embody, and move through for healing. We are meant to heal together ... nature can bring us together and remind us of our common humanity and interconnectedness.

LOCATION:  Wells Reserve at Laudholm, 342 Laudholm Farm Rd, Wells, ME
ACTIVITY: Sitting meditation followed by a collective Compassion and Grief walk (i.e., Portaling Awareness activity)
DATES: refer to Events Page for dates and to register.

​Being Present with Grief
3-Part GRIEF SERIES​

Learn about the principles of compassion and how you can develop a relationship with loss & grief. This series consists of three sessions, ~2 hours each. Participants learn how to be available for loss & grief and develop a relationship with it. We explore a compassion-focused approach that helps grief move through, inform, and transform: Aware, Appreciation, Allow, Available, Ask & Listen, Alleviate, Acceptance, Align, Alter/Alchemy, Anew. (Straka 2019).

​When you face and care for grief with gratitude, presence, and awareness you will find compassion arises and the pain becomes one of ​your wisest teachers. Sessions include presentation, discussion, and healing nature walks. Come step into nature as you learn how to use compassion to care for loss & grief.

LOCATION: 
Wells Reserve, 342 Laudholm Farm Rd, Wells, ME
or
​Abenaki Professional Plaza,1662 Post Road, Unit B, Wells, ME 04090
DATES: refer to Events Page for dates and to register.
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Scheduled Events

​​Everything we experience is within awareness,
whether it’s sadness or joy, it happens inside of our awareness. ​

OTHER GROWLOVE OFFERINGS

Loss & Grief Care: Individual Care

Individual sessions offer time to be with, listen to, and explore loss & grief as I hold a space of compassion for grief. My grief care approach is informed by the neuroscience of compassion, neurobiology, Compassion-Focused Therapy (CFT) and the compassion tenants in my book, Joy at the Edges of Grief. Learning to be Present in the Midst of Caregiving, Illness, and Loss. The approach teaches compassion, presence, and awareness are resources for healing and resilience.

I offer retreats and individual care for:
- those caregiving for a loved one, and
- those seeking guidance for loss, change and/or grief and want compassion-focused tools.

I also offer reiki sessions upon request.
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​LOCATION: Riverbend Road, Wells, ME, 60 minute session
Schedule Appointment: Email or call to schedule a session. 
​[email protected]  (207) 408-5657

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​​“May we honor the many layers of loss and grief... they are a tender and beautiful part of our wholeness.”  
​-E. Straka, 2019

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