a space for the tender hearted
come as you are
“Come, let us go and make ourselves ready to be chosen by something greater than ourselves.”
— David Whyte
the solitary work we cannot do alone
1:1 Grief Companioning
A space to be witnessed in your grief without needing to explain it, rush through it, or make it more presentable. In these one-on-one sessions, we tend to what aches with care, curiosity, and presence. Through deep listening, somatic practices, and ritual, we make room for what grief is asking of you.
Available online or in person.
Grief was never meant to be carried alone.
I offer one-on-one and communal spaces to tend loss, dying, and the tender work of staying close to what matters. These are invitations into slower rhythms for soul maintenance, imaginal listening, and remembering the body as part of the living, dreaming earth.
For many of us, grief is a deeply personal, private encounter. An energy we often outcast to the fringes of our internal landscape. In our ascension enamored society where grief is taboo and “happiness is wholeness,” these strategies are rewarded and reinforced, encouraging fragmentation and isolation. We have careers to maintain, personas to uphold, and concerns of,
“If I go there, what if I don’t come back?”
In truth, if we don’t go there, we won’t come back.
Grief is not something to be solved or cured, it’s something to be witnessed and welcomed; a necessary visitor and a meaningful part of our humanness that reflects the depths of what we experience, love, and lose.
Grief takes many shapes- childhood trauma, the unraveling of a relationship, the death of a loved one, the loss of a job or former way of being, ecological loss, climate injustice, and the ache of witnessing a world in flux.
Together, we’ll explore the terrain of your grief and come to know it intimately. Through witnessing, somatic practices, and rituals, we’ll tend to the fire of your grief, alchemizing the energies that diminish your participation with the world, suspend your growth, and encumber your inherent right to be seen and known.
Together we’ll wade in oceanic time.
The Slow Work of Grief
About Elena—
Elena is a grief-tender, writer, and practitioner of deep listening, guided by the rhythms of loss, remembrance, and renewal. Her work tends the thresholds of descent and emergence, recognizing grief as an apprenticeship; one that unfolds in relationship, calls for care, and asks to be metabolized over time.
Life’s waters flow from darkness.
Search the darkness, don’t run from it.
Night travelers are full of light, and you are too:
don’t leave this companionship.
—Rumi
