Grief isn’t just about death. It lives in the quiet losses, shifts in our identities, disappointments, and ruptures whether at work, in our personal lives or both.

• At work, it might be the end of a role, a team dynamic, a vision you poured your heart into.
• In life, it may show up as change in your relational world, strain from caregiving, or discovering you have dreams that no longer fit as hoped.

These are gritty, knotty, gauzy experiences that can have us feeling destabilized and stuck in a heavy veil.

Yet, what if we pause to consider grief isn’t something we get over, but something we move through and learn to live with? What if the grief experience enables an alternative way of being in the world that might even be sacred?

I hold this quote as sacred, with thanks to the dear human who led my Trauma Informed Coaching Certification a while back, Brad Hardie, MCC, TICC, CTP, MPNLP of Moving The Human Spirit. He shared recently, “…if we reframe for how we look at grief, we can look at it as a reset, a rebirth. Grief is a wonderful part of life. We get to release, let go and reset nervous systems and generate a new path forward.”

Grief makes many of us uncomfortable, yet it’s inevitable, raw, and often present around us or within us. What if, as leaders, we lean more into honest conversations about it, rather than turning away?

At your side in the grief experience,

Eva