For those who mourn...

Will feeling grief soon be obsolete? Photo: grieving mom in the labyrinth at Selah Carefarm , where grief is held, welcomed, tended, and where we remember them without apologizing. I've often wished this work didn't have to exist but not for the same reason as the one in the article below. Rather, I've wished this because I've wished, with all my heart, that no one died before living their full lifetimes. For three decades, I've walked with mothers and fathers, brothers and s

For far too long, grief has been treated as abnormal, especially under traumatic circumstances. Today, normal reactions to extraordinary tragedy are being diagnosed, contained, or corrected by systems of supposed-care. But, as I have said for more than three decades, grief is not a disorder that needs to be fixed or abbreviated or rushed. This type of coercion is imperialist coercion, and it adds to the extreme loneliness and despair that many grievers report. When clinicians

***Sensitive content from a client of Selah Carefarm *** My name is Dorothy Green and I have an adjustment disorder. At least that is...