Rachel believes that story is a powerful tool for connection, meaning-seeking, healing, and integrating the most beautiful and challenging parts of life. Rachel’s own apprenticeship to grief began in Feb 2020 when her father was diagnosed with ALS. During his dying process, she started talking - and writing - about her experience navigating his disease and death. Writing helped her make sense of the senseless, helped her process the loss, and begin to figure out how to hold her sorrow with the same honor as her love.
Grief can often feel very solitary, but sharing our stories of sorrow with others helps bring light to the darkness. In this grief writing workshop, Rachel will guide participants through an explorative writing exercise designed to shine a warm light on our sorrows, followed by optional story-telling.
Participants are encouraged to bring:
a favorite journal and pen (notebooks will be provided if you don’t have one, with pens available as well).
a small item for our grief altar
items to make yourself comfortable (layers, water, snacks, etc.)
This workshop is sponsored by the Moretown Library at 1147 VT-100B, Moretown, VT 05660. Please note that at this time, the library is only accessible by stairs.