What Are the Practices and Mindsets That Can Be Helpful to Navigate Loss, Grief, Change and Transitions? And What Does It Mean to Make Good Compost as We Close Ideas, Forms, Collective Creations That No Longer Serve Us?

While the growth of the home birth and home funeral movements are to be celebrated, we can draw upon the ancient wisdom of holding space for the birthing, dying, rejoicing, and bereaved, even if the modern hospital remains the location of the vast majority of births and deaths. Location is secondary; skilled and loving support matters most. Will th

While Gopal acknowledged that “catastrophe is inevitable,” he followed it right up with, “but change is also inevitable; transition is inevitable.” And he laid out some strategies to guide us forward. But how do we proceed at the heart level? How do we break down the walls inside our psyches, reconnect with our neighbors, and take those first steps

to clear room in our hearts for this unwelcome burden.