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G R I E F - T E N D I N G C I R C L E

GRIEF WAS NEVER MEANT TO BE CARRIED ALONE.

For women carrying long-standing, complex, or enduring grief.

M O N T H L Y G R I E F - T E N D I N G C I R C L E

GRIEF WAS NEVER MEANT TO BE CARRIED ALONE.

For women carrying long-standing, complex, or enduring grief.

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September 13 • October 14 • November 15 • December 16

MANY WOMEN CARRY PROFOUND SORROW SILENTLY FOR YEARS.

SOMETIMES THIS GRIEF FOLLOWS DEATH OR TRAUMATIC LOSS

Sometimes it comes from many losses layered over time — trauma, caregiving, disappointments, ruptures, lost futures, ancestral sorrow, or years of carrying far more than anyone realized.

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Life Continues & Responsibilities Remain.

WE BECOME HIGHLY SKILLED AT FUNCTIONING WHILE CARRYING GRIEF.

Over time, this grief becomes one more thing to manage rather than something deeply sacred that can be honestly tended.

Our culture glorifies coping, staying strong, and moving forward,

Leaving little room for the truth of grief

Or for the grief-attuned support, witnessing, and community that our sorrow actually needs.

Sanctuary for Sorrow offers this through ceremonial community grief tending.

A place where sorrow can be honoured rather than hidden.

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THERE ARE FEW PLACES WHERE GRIEF IS WELCOMED WITHOUT URGENCY.
THIS IS ONE OF THEM.

A C E R E M O N I A L S P A C E

F O R G R I E F T E N D I N G

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Sanctuary for Sorrow is a monthly ceremonial community grief-tending circle rooted in the understanding that grief moves beautifully when supported by ritual and not carried alone.

Each gathering is a grief-tending ceremony — an intentional and compassionate space where sorrow is welcomed, invited forward gently, witnessed, and honoured within community.

Together we move at the speed of grief.

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GROUNDING

Grounding, intention setting, and somatic practices to support presence and connection.

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REFLECTION

Guided reflections and invitations into grief tending.

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WITNESSING

Grief-attuned witnessing, compassionate community, and gentle integration.

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RITUAL

Ritual, symbolic, embodied, artistic, and ceremonial forms of grief expression.

Why Community Matters

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GRIEF IS PROFOUNDLY PERSONAL. BUT IT WAS NEVER MEANT TO BE CARRIED ALONE.

Grief can also be deeply isolating, leaving many women carrying sorrow quietly and feeling alone in experiences that others may not fully understand.

When sorrow meets grief-attuned witnessing in compassionate community, the nervous system settles, and the energy of grief moves more freely and integrates more easily.

Many women feel relief in places like these — where grief no longer needs to be hidden, sorrow is honestly welcomed, and they feel deeply seen and understood in their grief.

Join Us

You do not need to carry grief alone.

If you’re longing for a place where sorrow can be welcomed, witnessed, and gently tended in community, you are warmly invited.

Upcoming Dates:

September 13 → 10am-12pm PST

• October 14 → 6-8pm PST

• November 15 → 10am-12pm PST

• December 16 → 6-8pm PST

Location: Live on Zoom
Duration: 2 Hours
Investment: $44 CAD

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BINDI— THE GRIEF TENDRESS™

IS A GRIEF GUIDE AND RITUAL FACILITATOR DEVOTED TO RESTORING GRIEF AS A SACRED AND NECESSARY PART OF LIFE.

Her work is shaped by a lifetime of personal loss and deep reckonings with sorrow, rupture, caregiving, survival, and becoming— experiences that prepared her to walk alongside others carrying profound grief with tenderness and care.

Bindi creates grounded, embodied, trauma-informed spaces where grief is welcomed rather than pathologized, and where women are supported in remaining connected to life while carrying what they love and what they have lost.

She’s trained in grief ritual facilitation and grief tending through the Darkwoods of Grief lineage inspired by Francis Weller, is a Grief Recovery Specialist through the Grief Recovery Institute, a certified women’s somatic educator, and a certified ancestral healing guide.

Through workshops, circles, retreats, ritual spaces, and 1:1 grief tending, Bindi helps women develop a more compassionate and sustainable relationship with grief, one that allows sorrow to be honestly tended while creating greater capacity for vitality, meaning, connection, and aliveness over time.

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