Intention and Metamorphosis: Welcoming Life Fully Through Grief

Many of us enter the new year with resolutions — promises to do more of this or less of that. But what if, instead, we welcomed the year with the intention of being more fully? Of inhabiting our lives more completely — showing up as our fullest, truest selves, present with both our joy and our heartbreak. What if we allowed grief to be a teacher, a sacred and wise guide, rather than something to escape or quickly replace?

Setting the intention to be fully shifts the energy entirely. We envision and tap into our inner light and divine consciousness. Self-judgment gives way to self-embrace. We begin to feel what is true and possible. Trust grows as we listen to our intentions, sense their movement, and follow where they lead.

As we prepare for A Sacred Journey With Grief Retreat in just a few weeks, Jess, Lisa, and I have been experiencing — more deeply than ever — the power of intention. Our intention is to serve: to meet each participant exactly where they are in their personal and unique journey with grief. We aim to honor every part of that journey, to witness it with love and within community. We bring together our own experience, strength, and hope to offer support on cognitive, emotional, physical, and spiritual levels. Our hope is to create a safe, compassionate container — one that offers meaningful modalities and invites each participant to meet their grief in the way they are uniquely called.

Throughout this process, we have been continually amazed by the power of intention — and by the power of preparation, ceremony, connection, and community. Even in the planning, we have already felt profoundly blessed. Again and again, the metaphor of metamorphosis has revealed itself as true. The egg stage marked the beginning — a time of possibility and potential. The caterpillar stage brought nourishment and shedding. The chrysalis stage invited reorganization, surrender, and becoming something new. And the butterfly stage has been one of integration — the embodied truth of transformation. Just as grief unfolds in unexpected, metamorphic ways, so too has our own journey through this process.

Simply by following nature’s rhythms in the planning, we have already experienced profound blessing and transformation. Each and every encounter has felt sacred — not only with our retreat attendees, but with everyone we have met along the way. When we commit to being — to showing up as our fullest selves — when we trust divine guidance through both pain and joy, and when we embrace the synergy of community, the offering becomes its own reward.

In grief, as in life, laying our egg out can feel deeply vulnerable. Rearranging ourselves — shedding and molting like the caterpillar while finding the nourishment we need — can be uncomfortable. Surrendering and reorganizing, as in the chrysalis stage, can feel confusing and disorienting. And it can be terrifying to spread new wings — still wet and fragile — and trust that we are capable of flight as we transform into the butterfly.

We invite you to try on this metaphor as you set your intentions for the new year.

At A Sacred Journey With Grief Retreat, we support metamorphosis with your grief — not as a path away from it. We invite you into a shared, beautiful flight, embracing your wholeness in all its facets—the joy and the heartbreak—physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually intact.

A truly special group is coming together for this journey. For now, we have two spots remaining, and we are also holding space for a scholarship recipient who could not otherwise participate. If your heart feels moved, a gift of any amount would be received with profound gratitude. Such generosity has quiet magic: like the egg initially laid out, its transformation through metamorphosis, may be hidden at first, yet it carries sacred potential beyond what we can imagine.

Registration has been extended, for now, for two more participants!

With all love and blessing, we wish you an intentional and metamorphic New Year.

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