Embracing life's endings, one day at a time

The transformative power of grief

I believe we live in a grief phobic culture in the West, and it’s preventing us from embracing the full transformative potential that grief offers.

In 2005, death visited me twice in the span of 6 months. These were not the first deaths I'd lived through, nor the last, but they were, for reasons I won’t go into right now, the most impactful. In April of…