Your sadness is welcome here.  So is your exhaustion, your irritability, your clumsiness, your cloudy mind, and your anxiety.  I invite to rest here a while your desire to forgive, your refusal to forgive, your tearfulness, your tearlessness, your deep abiding faith, your heart-rending doubt, your looping memories, your drawing a blank, your magical thinking, your cynicism, and your child-like wonder.  There is room here for the lump in your throat, the stifled laughter, the guilt, the shame, the regret, the celebration, the fear of betrayal, and the sensation in your torso that is somehow hollow and heavy, frozen and on fire, a dull ache and a sharp stab. Your righteous indignation that “It’s not supposed to be this way,” your rationalization that “It happens to us all,” your fed-up-ness with clichés, and your fierce rejection with people trying to fix you are not a problem in this place.  Please call home the parts of you that balk at finality, the ones that dumbstruck in awe, the ones who long deeply for it to be otherwise.  Most importantly, bring that familiar and haunting, self-deprecating voice that says, “I think I’m doing it wrong.”  It’s all welcome here.  You are welcome here. 

This is a website dedicated to making space for and inviting close the most challenging conversations of our lives—conversations about death and and the deep changes that fundamentally change the way we see ourselves and the world. You will find information about One-on-One or Small Group Grief Counseling and End-of-Life Dialogue under the “Services” tab in the menu bar or by selecting the in-line links. Please look through the Handouts and Recommended Practitioners, Organizations, and Other Resources under “Resources.” You will find information about upcoming educational and community-building events with Asher and his network on the Events page. I am happy to answer any questions you might have or to receive interest in upcoming workshops and events through the Contact form. I invite you to follow along on Instagram and Facebook by clicking on the icons below.