Gloom to Bloom: A Grief Cauldron
A Sanctuary for Conjuring Mourning Magic
Step into a circle where grief is not a problem to solve, but a doorway into deeper aliveness.
In Gloom to Bloom, we meet sorrow the way an underworld goddess meets the dark — slowly, reverently, and with the understanding that everything buried eventually feeds the tender seeds of future blooms.
Bring your gloom.
Leave with a little fertilizer to nourish your blooms.
Grief is Universal
Grief isn’t a personal failing.
It’s the price of being human.
Every one of us will lose someone, something, or some version of ourselves.
We’ll lose relationships, identities, dreams, pets, parents, partners, friends, places, careers, health, old patterns, old habits, and entire seasons of our lives.
None of us are exempt.
We can deny it, avoid it, banish it, outrun it, spiritualize it, or numb it —
but grief still lurks under the surface, humming its ancient song.
To love takes courage, because everything we love is impermanent.
Every attachment carries the shadow of loss.
Every joy has grief curled quietly behind it like a faithful companion.
Grief and love are soulmates.
Grief is not the enemy of love —
it’s proof of it.
And if grief will walk with us for the entirety of our lives…
what would happen if we befriended it?
If we learned its language instead of fearing or avoiding its arrival?
If we met it with gratitude and reverence instead of resistance or denial?
Gloom and Bloom is a place to explore that friendship —
gently, slowly, in community.
Grief is Communal
Grief isn’t a problem to solve.
It’s a portal that opens us into tenderness, memory, devotion, and meaning.
And while sorrow can feel solitary, it was never meant to be carried alone.
Grief is communal.
Grief is ancestral.
Grief is sacred.
Grief is magic.
Grief is a portal to aliveness.
Gloom to Bloom is a gentle gathering for sorrow and soul-tending.
Whether you're grieving a loss, a life you thought you'd have, a relationship shift, the state of the world, or something you can't even name, you’re welcome here.
No fixing. No advising. Just sharing, holding space, alchemizing, and witnessing.
Come gather around the cauldron.
Tend to the garden of your soul.
Sip tea. Share your woes.
And alchemize grief into aliveness: from Gloom to Bloom.
Mourning Magic
Mourning Magic is the alchemy that happens when grief is witnessed with acceptance.
It’s the soft spell that rises when someone says,
“I see your suffering, and I’m here.”
It’s the way sorrow transforms in community —
how a room full of people breathing together can feel like a cauldron,
how tears make the ground fertile,
how naming the heartache loosens its grip.
In Gloom to Bloom, we treat mourning as a form of magic…
🪷 the magic of presence
🪷 the magic of being held without being fixed
🪷 the magic of communal sorrow becoming communal strength
🪷 the magic of remembering that woe can soften in the company of others
Wednesday’s child may be full of woe,
but she doesn’t have to walk it alone.
Grief is meant to be tended to in community.
From Gloom Into the Cauldron of Blooms
If your heart is heavy, tender, confused, lonely, overwhelmed, cracked open, or simply curious about what grieving in community might feel like… come.
There’s a seat for you.
Your grief isn’t too much.
Your story isn’t too boring or too strange.
Your sorrow isn’t a burden.
Here, grief belongs.
And so do you.
No experience required.
No storytelling pressure.
No spiritual bypassing.
Just honest humanity and soft presence.
Wednesday’s child may be full of woe —
but when she steps into the circle, the circle steps toward her.
She doesn’t have to walk her grief alone.
Ways to Gather, Ways to Bloom
Every bloom needs the right soil.
Below are the cauldrons where grief can soften and begin to transform into blooms.
Weekly In-Person Gatherings
Bainbridge Island, WA
Wednesdays
1 pm - 2:30 pm
By donation
A small, intimate Gloom to Bloom gathering held in my home on Bainbridge Island.
We sit together, sip tea, put our woes into the cauldron, witness each other’s sorrow, and let tenderness do its slow, sacred work.
(Once you register, you’ll receive the address and details.)
1:1 Grief-Tending Cauldron
Coming Soon
Online
For deeper, personalized support, I offer private grief-tending sessions — a blend of ritual, witnessing, somatic presence, and soul alchemy.
Suitable for:
fresh or long-held grief
anticipatory grief
identity/transition grief
relational grief
ancestral or spiritual grief
grief that doesn’t have words yet
Sessions include gentle inquiry, grounding, emotional witness, and practices that help you integrate grief in a healthy, embodied way.
Your session may include:
gentle inquiry
grounding and gentle breath work
grief witnessing without fixing
guided journeys
rituals
soul-alchemy guidance
gentle integration and meaning-making
Available soon as part of my expanded 1:1 Soul Alchemy offerings.
Monthly In-Person Gatherings
Coming Soon
Bainbridge Island, WA
and/or
Poulsbo, WA
By sliding scale or donation
A larger circle held at a local community space.
A soft place for neighbors to gather, grieve, and breathe.
Stay tuned for dates, times, and location(s).
Online Gatherings
Coming Soon
By donation
For those who don’t live nearby, are unable to attend in person, or who prefer to join from home, an online version is forming.
Same magic. Same witnessing. Same tender bloom.
Stay tuned for frequency, dates, and times.