Suggested Donation $25-$35

Rehumanizing Grief: Beneath the Lens of Mental Health

RESCHEDULED
due to illness

New gathering date:
January 12, 5-6:15pm Pacific

Rehumanizing Grief is part of our monthly series in 2025 called Grief Conversations.

Dominant culture says that grief is a problem. Society tells us that Mental Illness is an issue and that if your heart is broken for too long you have a disorder. If someone died or a relationship is broken from factors related to mental illness, we are told to sweep it into the closet, because “that is not normal or ok.” Sometimes, the mental health world’s attempt to understand and label the human experience winds up making us feel so much less human. Additionally, spiritual communities often bypass the depth of our pain with platitudes about transcending death. As a result, there are few settings that welcome expressions of grief as a sacred human and healthy reality. No wonder, many of us feel stuck, ashamed, or forgotten in our sorrow. Or, we might feel terrified to open the door to our broken hearts, fearing complete collapse. As a board-certified art therapist, an embodied grief tender, intuitive somatic practitioner and devotee of the sacred, Monika Denise sets a periscope beneath the lens of mental health and spirituality to a space where every part of us, including our grief, are welcomed home as [w]holy human. She explores how embodiment, earth reverence and community ritual offer soulful practices of remembering our humanness, widening our capacity to be with, honor and metabolize grief. The secret of it is, your grief is not a problem, and we aren’t meant to do this all alone.

 

Join the conversation with Monika Denise and Willow Brook. Following registration, you are invited to submit your questions before the gathering that will shape the direction of the dialogue. There will also be a live Q&A during the gathering for any additional questions.

 

Suggested Donation $25-35

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A recording is available to all who register until February 2nd. 

 

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