Sages of Grief, LLC

01/05/2026

Most people will wait until they're completely burned out, can't take the stress of it anymore, or begin having panic attacks before they seek help.

You don't have to be most people.

At Sages of Grief, you'll work with someone who truly cares about you and your well-being.

Someone who doesn't' want to fix you, pathologize or medicate you, and won't just give you generic advice or empty motivation.

Someone who will ask the difficult questions you've been avoiding.

Someone who will challenge the excuses you've been giving yourself.

Someone who will help you build a strategy to get you to where you want to be, and to who you want to be.

How long does that take?

That's up to you.

Let's start today and find out.

Are you ready?

01/03/2026

Please remember that grief isn't always obvious.

It begins quietly, soft, subtle changes that we often ignore.

It starts with feeling exhausted, struggling to get out of bed, losing interest in things we once enjoyed, and a lack of motivation.

Sometimes it looks like not having an appetite, indigestion, skin breakouts, and a gradual reluctance or being overwhelmed by the things that are a part of your normal routine.

For others, it comes as a decreased libido, feeling lost or stuck, eating too much, or slowly disconnecting from the world around us.

There may be brain fog, failing to remember the simplest of things, increased clumsiness, irritability you can’t explain, or self-sabotaging behaviours that leave you wondering why you did what you did.

It can even appear as sleeping too much, sleeping too little,
or sleeping without feeling rested upon waking, and increased physical pain the can't be explained such as with an obvious injury.

These are the subtle warning signs.

The quiet whispers.

The little alarms we push aside because we tell ourselves and others “we are fine" (i.e. Feelings Inside Not Expressed).

But your body always speaks to you. It warns you gently at first. Then, demands for attention, rest, healing, and care.

Please listen to it before it has to scream.

Your wellbeing matters long before the breakdown.

You deserve comfort and peace before the pain gets loud.

12/17/2025

For anyone who has lost a loved one, please consider yourself cordially invited to a memorial service being held this Saturday at 4:30 p.m. I, along with my dear friends at Arlington Memorial Gardens, will be speaking. With love during this holiday season, which is often difficult for many, I hope to see you there.

Join Arlington Memorial Gardens for our Christmas Remembrance & Candle Lighting Service at our Lakeside Chapel on December 20. All friends and family are welcome.

12/15/2025

At Sages of Grief, LLC, we offer clear guidance, genuine understanding, steady support, and respect for your individual grieving process.

12/11/2025

We invite you to visit our newly launched website and support our mission to aid those in need. During this challenging holiday season, please share our website with anyone struggling and encourage them to reach out to us directly. Our goal is to ensure that no one grieves alone. https://sagesofgrief.org/ Sages of Grief, LLC

Compassionate grief support and counseling services to help you navigate loss and find healing. Reach out today for guidance tailored to your needs.

06/18/2025

Morbidity and mortality associated with bereavement is an important public health issue, yet economic and resource investments to effectively implement and sustain integrated bereavement services are sorely lacking at national and global levels. Although bereavement support is a component of palliat...

06/18/2025

Content warning: This discussion includes sensitive topics around grief, loss, and substance use.In this special Mental Health Awareness Month release, Dr. A...

06/12/2025

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07/30/2024

How can neuroscience help clarify the “why” of grief? Why does it take so long? Why is it so painful? Psychologist Mary-Frances O’Connor, PhD, applies an int...

05/01/2024

I missed you quietly today. So quietly that no one noticed. I missed you as I climbed out of bed and as I brushed my teeth; when I waited at the lights on the drive into work and as I heard the rain outside my window. I missed you as I ordered lunch and as I kicked off my shoes when I got home; as I switched off the lights and climbed into bed for the night. I missed you without tears or noise or fanfare. But oh how I felt it. I felt it in the morning, at lunchtime, in the evening and at night. I felt it as I woke, as I waited, as I worked. I felt it at home, on the road, in the light, in the dark, in the rain. I felt it in every one of those moments, each one sitting heavier and heavier as the weight of me missing you kept growing and growing. Yes, I missed you so quietly today. But I felt it so loudly. ~ B. Hemsley

05/01/2024

I don't think we talk enough about how quiet the road gets. How long the waiting feels. How lonely healing can be. I don't think we talk enough about how undone we become in the valley of grief. Or how enormously we must stretch just to fit ourselves into some kind of new normal and dare to call it life again. And I don't think we talk enough about how we have no other thing left, but to gather up our heavy limbs and carry on. Because the earth keeps spinning. The sun keeps rising. And the days keep on bleeding, one into the next, regardless of the moment that made all the minutes inside of our heart stand still. ~ Ullie-Kaye

03/20/2024

Recently, I came across a post about equanimity and it occurred to me that grief is a great balance of both positive and negative realizations and experiences. The theory of equanimity is closely aligned with the concept of the middle path, which asks grievers to consciously engage in the full breadth of life - the light and shadow, beauty and wounding, joy and sorrow. As such, it allows us to cultivate the balance and neutrality needed to embrace and integrate the ever so complex, divergent aspects of our grief. As we embark on this journey, at some point, we find ourselves on the other side of grief. Yet, it doesn’t mean that the difficult and wounded parts of our soul go away, or that we are done with pain, sorrow and healing work. What it does mean is that we fundamentally have become a different person and that, as a griever, we more than likely now function from a place of self-awareness, power, wisdom, balance and neutrality. As a griever mentioned to me yesterday, " The highs are not as high. Equally, however, the lows are not as low."