Grief and Growth: Welcoming You Into a New Era of Weaving Grief

Weaving Grief
2 days ago
7 min read

In true Weaving Grief fashion, before we enter into talking about what's next, let us first honour what was and what is. This year has held so much growth for Weaving Grief, and we are so grateful for all that its held.

We went from a solo to a collective practice.
We've published a new blog post every single week this past year, making this one number 52!
We've showed up consistently on Instagram even when it was hard, with the intention of building community, and rewriting the way we think about grief.
And of course, we have spent countless hours in session with incredible humans and grieving hearts through all different seasons and kinds of loss. We are forever moved by the courage it takes to show up and do this work, and are forever grateful to those who have chosen us to walk alongside them.

A New Era: Grief and Growth

Why We're Turning Towards the Grief of Growth

Grief is not only about death and endings, and that kind of grief gets quite a lot of attention (although still not enough), and at Weaving Grief, we know that grief is always present, woven into the fabric of our human experience. And we also know that grief often, (if not always), shows up very powerfully in our biggest and best expansions.

When we grow, we inevitably leave something behind, whether that's old identities, familiar relationships, safe patterns, and versions of ourselves that no longer fit where we're going or who we are becoming.

This is why growth, even when its deeply desired, can feel heavy, lonely, or overwhelming. There is loss inside every beginning, and there is grief contained within every expansion. These are the things no one tells us about grief or growth, but we want to change that here.

Weaving Grief is entering into a new era, one that turns towards the tender, often unspoken grief that arises in seasons of growth, transition, and expansion. This body of work is especially for entrepeneurs, leaders, coaches, healers, therapists, and anyone going aftr a big dream or who is carrying the emotional weight of stepping into their next level.

Why Grief Belongs in the Conversation About Growth

(And why I think it actually belongs at the heart and center of conversations about growth).

The dominant story about success is that it should feel exciting and expansive. We're told that when go after our big dreams, when we scale our business, expand our reach, or step into leadership, that the experience should be nothing but exciting and exhilarating.

And yet, so many leaders find themselves secretly stuggling (myself included).

Feeling lonley as they move to the next level.
Carrying grief of ourgrowing old cricles, friends, and relationships.
Wrestling with the emotional cost of holding more (more responsibility, more visibility, more clients, more complexity).
Grieveing the version of themselves that no longer exists.
Longing for simpler times.

When we ignore this grief, it doesn't disappear. It lives inside our nervous systems, showing up as burnout, anxiety, resistance, self-sabatoge, stuckness, or a lingering sense of dread and disconnection from our own aliveness.

By naming and tending this grief, growth becomes more sustainable, more integrated, more human, more soulful, more real.

Who This Work Is For

This new era of Weaving Grief is for the helpers, healers, and leaders, who are moving into bigger work, and noticing the weight of what this asks of them.

Entrepeneurs and coaches expanding their business while feeling the grief of who they have outgrown.
Therapists and healers holding more clients and more responsibility while navigating their own thresholds of capacity.
Service providers and leaders who are scaling to the next level and finding that success feels heavier than expected.
The big dreamers who are feeling the tension of excitement and the fear of what those dreams are asking of them.

If you've ever wondered why your growth doesn't feel purely joyful, or if you've felt the bittersweet pull of becoming someone new while grieving who you once were, then this work is for you.

What Growth Asks of Us

Growth always comes with asks. You know that quote, "your new life is going to cost you your old one", yeah, that.

It asks us to let go of what no longer fits.

It asks us to leave behind relationships, friendshisps, dynamics, patterns, and identities that once felt safe.

It asks us to greive the familiarity of old ways of being, even as we celebrate what we are stepping into.

It asks us to expand our nervous systems, to learn how to hold more without abandoning or sacrificing ourselves.

And it asks us to move through cycles of contraction and expansion, trusting that rest and integration are as vital as forward momentum.

When we honour these asks, instead of resisting them, then we grow in ways that are not only successful, but sustainable and soul-aligned.

Why This Matters Now

We live in a culture that glorifies endless growth.. bigger, faster, more. But we rarely talk about the emotional labor of getting there.

As more entrepreneurs, leaders, and healers rise into new levels of visibility and impact, the unspoken grief of growth is becoming impossible to ignore.

The cost of not addressing it is clear: burnout, disconnection, stalled expansinon, fragmentation, and buisness (or lives) that don't feel as meaningul as they were meant to.

The invitation of this new body of work is simple, but profound: to weave grief back into the story of growth, as it is the medicine we need to return to our wholeness and our aliveness.

What It Actually Takes to Hold More

At its heart, this work is about capacity. It is not only about growing a business or scaling a practice. It's about learning how to hold more without losing yourself.

This requires:

Nervous system regulation, so expansion doesn't flood or overwhelm.
Somatic practices, to stay rooted in your body while everything around you grows, shifts, and changes.
Rituals and reflection, to honour what you've let go of and what you're stepping into/toward.
Community witnessing, so you don't have to carry the weight of grief or growth alone.
Permission for contraction, so you can integrate, rest, recalibrate, and prepare for the next season (the next expansion).

This is the heart of what Weaving Grief is turning toward: helping leaders and big dreamers (like you) navigate growth with soul, body, and grief-awareness at the center.

A New Era of Weaving Grief

This is not a departure from the core of our work, nor the work we have been doing for years, it's expansion. And we're walking it too.

Weaving Grief has always been about reimagining grief as something to move towards and build relationship with, and that remains true, always. This new era simply widens the lens, because grief is not only present within loss and endings, but also in beginnings, transitions, and thresholds as we move towards growth and expansion as well.

We believe that grief belongs. It belongs in our conversations, at our table, in the boardroom, in the business plan, in our clients journey, and in our own leadership journies too. We believe that naming grief, and weaving it into the picture of our growth makes success more human, more sustainable, more alive.

And we believe that in wevaing grief into our conversations about growth, we create space for leaders who are not only successful, but deeply embodied, soul-connected, and capable of holding the fullness of their vision.

Your Invitation Forward

If you've felt the tender tug and weight inside your growth, the lonliness, the bittersweetness, the grief that lingers behind the celebrations, please know you are not alone.

This new era of Weaving Grief is for you.

Start here: Download our new guide, Being with Grief in Growth, a resource with reflection prompts, somatic practcies, and rituals to support you in navigating expansion with soul.

Also, if this at all resonated with you, where you're at, and where you're going, then stay connected for upcoming workshops and group offerings designed to help you tend the grief of growth, so you can expand and go after all those big dreams, without loosing yourself (beacsue thats the new standard and the only way forward now - claim it).

Here, together, we are grieving and we are growing. It all belongs. And when we honour the fullness of our human experience, we connect to our aliveness in deeper ways, and we grow in ways that are whole, human, and alive.

Ready for the ride? Buckle up! We're just getting started.

About Us:

Weaving Grief specializes in compassionate grief therapy and grief support for individuals navigating loss of any kind - death, breakups, relationship transitions, chronic illness, loss of self, and more. We also support dreamers, healers, therapists, and leaders navigating the grief that comes with growth and expansion. By addressing these profound experiences, Weaving Grief empowers clients to grieve freely and live fully. Through somatic practices and meaningful reflection, we’re here to help you navigate these tender moments and rediscover the fullness of life.

Specific areas of focus: death of a loved one (recent or past), life changing transitions, relationship transitions and break ups, pregnancy loss, grief around family planning, chronic illness, loss of Self, and supporting entrepreneurs through the grief that comes with growth.

Learn more about Our Services or Join Our Newsletter.

In this blog post: At Weaving Grief, we believe grief is woven into every season of life — including growth, expansion, and success. Discover why tending the grief of growth matters, who this work is for, and how it supports entrepreneurs and leaders in scaling with soul.