grief care for suicide loss
embodied grief care for the unbearable.
Grief is a necessary and vital form of protest.
-Francis Weller
What brought me here.
When my beloved friend and soulmate, Joshua Stoddard, died by suicide in December 2021 it completely undid me. I remember frantically searching, hoping and praying for a kind of support that frankly did not exist. By the grace of goddess, I was able to piece together the support I needed. It was found in the generosity of friends and community, the medicine from healers and helpers, the knowing in others who had gone through a similar loss, and of course the presence of animal helpers - canine and equine specifically. While I cannot provide all of these things at once (although I do consider myself part-dog) - I am here to be the support that I was looking for. I bring the medicine I gathered from my journey through the underworld after Josh’s death.
If you are here, I welcome you. I welcome your story. I welcome your courageous heart. I welcome your deeply aching soul to what I hope you will find to be a soft space to land.
One-on-One Grief Care for Suicide Loss
Through these sessions I can promise that you will leave feeling empowered, less fearful of your grief and more deeply connected to the truth of what it means to be alive.
In one-on-one Care Sessions your deep wisdom is our greatest guide. You will find that the work we do together unfolds without a timeline or template and I am by your side as you move through this journey of great loss.
My approach to grief care after suicide loss incorporates somatic work, embodiment, ancestral work, ritual, deep listening and space holding.
Care Sessions are suitable for anyone who is grieving the loss of someone who has died by suicide. I am available to be by your side whether the loss happened within the last few days, weeks, months, years or even decades. It is never too early or too late to tend to your grief.
Cost for Individual Sessions
INDIVIDUAL
One Companioning session - $150 per 50 minutes
Please know that these sessions are different from Mental Health Counseling and do not replace that type of support.
If you are in need of financial support, please email me.
Questions? Please email maggie@maggieconverse.com.
“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.”
— C.S. Lewis