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Bringing Our Hearts to the Page: Grief & Poetry

July 6, 11am-12:15pm Pacific

Bringing Our Hearts to the Page is part of our monthly series in 2025 called Grief Conversations.

What if the words you're afraid to speak could become medicine for your soul?

When loss leaves us speechless, when grief feels too vast for ordinary language, we need containers strong enough to hold the unspeakable. In a world that turns away from mourning, poetry offers something revolutionary—a sacred practice that transforms our deepest wounds into vessels of healing, our silence into song, our isolation into connection.

Poetry doesn't rush us past our sorrow or demand we find meaning in our pain. Instead, it meets us exactly where we are, offering witness to our truth and companionship for the journey through loss.

In this heartfelt conversation, poet and grief tender Naila Francis and spiritual guide Mirabai Starr explore how bringing our hearts to the page becomes a pathway through grief—not around it, but directly through its sacred center. Together, they reflect on how creative expression can honor our losses while revealing the resilient beauty that emerges when we dare to put our broken hearts into words.

This Gathering Is For You If You Are:

Seeking creative ways to process and honor your grief
Drawn to poetry as healing practice but don't know where to begin
Looking for permission to let your loss speak through you
Wanting to move beyond thinking about grief and into feeling it fully
Longing for community with others who understand loss as sacred ground
Finding yourself asking: "How do I give voice to what feels unspeakable?"

Through Our Time Together, You Will:

Discover how poetry becomes a companion through the landscape of loss
Learn practices for accessing the embodied wisdom of grief that lives in your heart
Understand how creative expression can transform mourning into medicine
Gain tools for moving from your thinking mind into your grieving heart
Connect with a community of fellow travelers on the creative path through loss

Questions We'll Explore:

How does poetry help us access emotions that everyday language cannot reach?

What does it mean to "grieve well" through creative practice?

How can writing become a form of ritual, prayer, and communion with our losses?

What happens when we stop trying to fix our grief and start listening to its wisdom?

How do we honor our stories of loss while remaining open to transformation?

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