TGW Grief Stories
Kinship Journal

The Grief Well Kinship Journal has been created to support our Grief Stories framework, and it can be used as a stand alone grief resource as well.

The intention of this journal is to tenderly guide readers to question the stories they hold about grief and to facilitate a kinship with grief. TGW Kinship Journal supports both death related loss and non-death related loss.

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In addition to honouring the emotional experience of grief, TGW Kinship Journal acknowledges that grief affects us physically, cognitively, socially, and spiritually. To support this notion, the journal includes poetry, quotes, kinship practices, grief rituals, and writing prompts. There is ample space for reflections and expression of the experience of loss.

This journal is intentionally roomy to guide individuals to find their way by honouring natural wisdom. Grief asks us to be present and groundless, that is to be with what arises from moment to moment without fixating on a future destination. Our culture of knowing and control doesn’t often support this way of being, so for many this can be challenging. TGW Kinship Journal is a companion for navigating loss, it is our hope that it will inspire readers to dream into different possibilities about how to fully live through integrating a lifetime of loss.

TGW Grief Stories

An 8-week guided study exploring the narratives we hold about loss

In The Grief Well (TGW) Grief Stories, facilitators will hold the space for participants to explore stories about grief through mind, body, and spirit. This space is created to encourage participants to listen to self, and others with an open mind and an open heart. There is time during each gathering for individuals to share their lived experience with grief, if they choose. The facilitator will use poetry, passages, quotes, story, writing prompts, sharing, and silence to support a kinship with grief.

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"We will, in truth, spend many of our hours alone with our grief. In the cover of our solitude, we encounter another layer in our apprenticeship with sorrow. Here we are asked to hold an extended vigil with loss in the well of silence, slowly ripening our sorrow into something dense and gifting to the world. Our ability to drop into this interior world and do the difficult work of metabolizing sorrow is dependent on the community that surrounds us. Even when we are alone, it is necessary to feel the tethers of concern and kindness holding us as we step off into the unknown and encounter the wild edge of sorrow.”