“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”

–Rumi

We introduce a special offering to you this Fall, and we invite you to join us, whether you have lost a loved one, a job, a home, an identity, a relationship, or another treasured part of your life. Grief comes in all forms, but it holds the same growth potential. Within these moments of raw pain is a soulful pearl of light that is ready to break open and grow us beyond our grief.

I (Annie) want to invite you to a special virtual event that I am hosting with my husband, Morgan. We have lived through 3 griefs together, and each one has revealed the great growth potential within pain, suffering and loss. We met when Morgan was mourning the loss of his partner in the 2004 tsunami. 18 months ago, we held our son’s hand as he died and clung to each other’s hands as we let him go. Again, just 3 weeks ago, we sat with our mother and mother-in-law as she transitioned. 

Late this summer, we sat together and brainstormed all of the ways we have grown through our grief. We took a strategic approach and analyzed everything that has helped us through the past years, from improving our golf game (this may be a stretch to say ‘improve’) to taking a walk every day to making a decision that we would not blame our grief on anyone or anything (easier said than done). We laughed at the mistakes we made, and we honored the moments of break-through. At the end of our talk, we looked at each other and said, “Maybe we have something to say about grief and loss after all.” We landed on the truth that our spirituality grew us during excruciating moments. That’s what moved us from just getting by in grief to growing beyond it.  

We are eager to share our spiritual learning with you. We are equally eager to explore your own stories of what has helped you to grow and deepen spiritually in times of grief and loss. In this live event, we’ll share candidly, humorously, and soulfully about how spirituality has supported us both to grow beyond our grief, and we’ll take time to hear your questions and reflections about your own experiences. This live event will include a practical step to take with you so that you can start to see the shards of light that are signs of Great Growth. 

For the next few weeks, we will share some stories, research, examples, and inspirations for you to consider how you may grow beyond grief. Grief takes many forms. We all know what it is like to lose someone or something. Now is the time to take the step and grow beyond it.

Warm regards,

Annie & Morgan Browning