Author, Buddhist end-of-life caregiver, and grief expert.

Our world needs to acknowledge and attend to Elemental Grief™.

When people think of the term “grief,” they think of past, concrete loss. But there’s a more pervasive form of grief called Elemental Grief™,  an innate, intangible form of grief that doesn’t stem from a past or concrete loss, but is tied to a subconscious awareness of inevitable future loss, or impermanence, which results in a form of grief recognized as “fear of loss”

Grief doesn’t require a precipitating event, just a subtle awareness of the present moment and how that might impact the future. It is connected to moments that have already passed, like a fight with our best friend, and to moments to come, like knowing we will lose someone close to us one day. Grief is knowing that we, too, will die. We  experience it at the height of our careers, within stable and healthy families, and while we’re in love because we are subconsciously aware of the reality of impermanence.

Grief is bigger than what’s already happened to us – it is connected to our fears, what we love, and who we aspire to become. It impacts our relationship with ourselves and one another, and our social location determines the amount of harm we inflict against others based on our inherent relationship to grief.

I’ve spent years guiding people through the transitions of birth and death, and today, it’s my honor and my calling to help people build lives rich in meaning and authenticity as they navigate their unique path to spiritual-being being.