An Introduction to a Series on Living with Loss
Grief is often described as something you move through given time. I am sure you have heard people say, time heals all wounds.
Grief doesn’t follow a straight line, like you are walking towards the finish line. Stage by stage and step by step and coming out the otherside where it is completely resolved.
Instead, grief can feel more like you are walking a Labyrinth.
A labyrinth is not a maze. There are no dead ends, no wrong turns, and no single “correct” pace. There is one path, but it winds and curves, sometimes bringing you close to the centre, sometimes leading you back out again.
At times, it can feel as though you’re retracing your steps; returning to places you thought you had already passed through.
Have you heard the saying “healing is not linear”?
Grief can be like this too.
There are days when it feels distant, softened by time and the rhythms of daily life. And then, without warning, something brings you right back to the heart of it. A memory. A date. A quiet moment.
Not because you are going backwards, but because this is the nature of grief; it revisits, reshapes, and reveals itself in layers.
This series is an invitation to walk that path gently.
We will explore the many forms grief can take; not only the loss of a loved one, but also the quieter griefs: the life we expected but didn’t have, the paths not taken, the changes we never chose.
We will look at the “stages” of grief, not as fixed steps to complete, but as experiences that ebb and flow, often returning in new ways over time.
Most importantly, we will explore what it means to live with grief not to “get over it,” but to gradually make space for it within your life.
To carry it, in a way that allows both sorrow and life to exist side by side.
There is no finish line in a labyrinth. But there is movement. There is meaning. And there is, over time, a quiet kind of integration; where grief becomes part of your story, rather than something that stands outside of it.
Wherever you are on your path, you are not lost.
You are walking your way through.
A gentle journey to uncovering and healing the pain you are experiencing.
In this series we will cover grief in all its forms and provide you with insight and guidance into your pathway forward on your Labyrinth Path.
I invite you to bookmark this page to return and follow along with this deep and meaningful series.
