Navigating Milestones & Anniversaries: Grief Support, Mindfulness & Somatic Healing

Grief can feel especially heavy during holidays, anniversaries, and life milestones. This page offers gentle guidance, practical tools, and somatic practices to help you navigate these moments with compassion, presence, and support for your healing journey.

Grief can feel especially heavy during certain times of the year or key moments in life—holidays, anniversaries, and other significant milestones can bring up powerful emotions, memories, and a deep sense of loss. These moments may feel overwhelming, isolating, or even contradictory—joy and sadness can coexist, leaving you unsure how to navigate your feelings.

On this page, I share stories, somatic practices, and other gentle approaches to help you move through these moments with compassion, presence, and support for your embodied grief journey. You’ll find guidance tailored to:

  • Holidays: Navigating grief during seasonal celebrations, family gatherings, and culturally significant days that can amplify loss.

  • Anniversaries: Honoring the memory of loved ones on birthdays, death anniversaries, and other meaningful dates.

  • Life Milestones: Processing grief during transitions such as graduations, weddings, moves, or other “firsts” without someone you’ve lost.

Through mindful exercises, movement, breathwork, and reflective practices, you can create space to feel your emotions fully, reconnect with your body, and cultivate moments of healing and calm.

If you’re seeking additional support, you are warmly invited to book a 1:1 embodied grief support sessions or join an embodied grief circle. Together, we can explore personalized somatic practices and compassionate guidance to help you navigate these poignant moments with care and presence.

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Navigating Milestones & Anniversaries

You don’t have to navigate these moments alone. Through gentle somatic practices, mindfulness, and reflective tools, you can honor your grief, support your emotional health, and move through holidays, anniversaries, and life milestones with compassion and presence.

If these reflections speak to you, I invite you to:

May these stories remind you that even in loss, we are never walking alone.