Riding the Wild Edge: Making space for more joy in Motherhood by tending to our grief.
A four-week series of movement-based rituals and
Somatic Experiencing practices to bolster your resilience and strengthen your heart.
Is this you?
Already dreading the holidays because of how much pretending you’re going to have to do?
Fixating on your routine and exercise habits and willing yourself not to fall into bad patterns “like last year?”
Feeling a bit more resentful a bit more of the time?
Spending more time doom scrolling and stress eating?
Punishing yourself for being exhausted?
Feeling disconnected from your partner and kids?
What if we welcomed grief and let it change us?
This is grief.
Grief is the most underrated facet of becoming a Mother, and the most isolating experience if we do not honor it.
Grief comes when the body, mind, spirit have been shattered through transformation and no one is there to hold it or hear it.
Grief can be consuming, like quicksand.
But grief, when we turn toward it, shows us what we love.
“The gift of grief is the affirmation of life and of our intimacy with the world.”
Francis Weller
In Riding the Wild Edge, we will:
Come to understand why grief is so feared in our culture.
Learn to be with grief as a physical experience.
Experience movement and breath sequences that move grief in slow and sustainable ways.
Learn how to titrate our experience of grief and apply that skill to other challenging emotions.
Understand the physical, emotional, and psychological consequences of ignoring or isolating with our grief.
Share in community about our experience, learn from one another, and experience true holding for our authentic selves.
Expand our capacity for ALL of our humanness - grief, gratitude, and everything in between!
Details
When: Nov. 14, 21, 28, Dec. 5 @11-12:30pm MST
Where: Zoom! All sessions recorded and available for download.
What: 90mins of movement and breath work, Somatic Experiencing, and community connection / Q&A
How much? $333, $297 Early Bird until Nov. 7
About Me
My name is Stacey, and I’m your guide for
Riding the Wild Edge.
I was initiated into this life by loss. I lost my Mother - taken at birth and put into foster care until my adoption went through two weeks later. I was initiated into Motherhood by loss - miscarriage at eleven and a half weeks followed by weeks and weeks of blood and disorientation.
My life has been shaped, not defined, by this grief and the trauma of loss. In the beautiful words of my teacher and friend, Kimberly Ann Johnson, grief is a substrate, and to avoid it is to add to its density, its shadow, its pain. To avoid grief for fear of being swept away by the undertow is to continuously uproot from your human ground. I have found tremendous RELIEF in grieving. I have found a way back home to that place I mistakenly thought was a mistake - my SELF.
Each time I honor the grief (through purposeful practice, deliberate dialogue, shameless screaming into my pillows,) I notice my bones, I notice the earth, I remember my friends, I remember the Sacred, and I feel life moving through me instead of draining from me.
Grief without grieving breeds bitterness, and I can always recognize my unexpressed grief in that bitter tone of my thoughts and words. Grief wants grounding, for the nature of grief is transmutation - compost. Grieving is earth medicine and wailing is symphonic and cthonic. We must grieve, it is an expression of our aliveness.
WHAT YOU WILL GET
Four weekly 90min sessions, including movement and breathwork.
Somatic Experiencing practices to support your nervous system in digesting grief and expanding to hold more joy.
Creative practices to deepen your understanding of your emotions and greater awareness of your needs and boundaries.
Community.
First access to my three-month mentorship program, The Dark Mother.
The life-changing skill of emotional resilience!