You’re not meant to grieve alone.

The Heart of Autumn: A Grief & Creativity Retreat

Join me for a special day.

Take precious care of your grief before the holiday season. Reconnect with your grief and its wisdom with guidance and support. Our day will include guided meditation, our community grief altar, a healing ritual, and generous time to respond to journal prompts, walk the labyrinth and trails, make a collage, take mindful photos or simply rest. Limited to 12 participants.

9:30 am-5 pm, Saturday, November 21
Five Oak Ranch Retreat Center, Austin, TX
Cost: $175-$75 (based on your needs)

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Robin with chin resting on her hand seated in wicker chair

Grief is part of life.

Your grief is precious. Your loss deserves witnessing and acknowledgment. Every sorrow matters—the death of a loved one, loss of a relationship or pet, ancestral wounds, worry for our planet, or life’s many disappointments. Our culture tells us to “hurry up and grieve,” but our bodies and souls know better. Let me gently guide you to befriend your grief and make space for joy again.

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What is grief tending?

When you watch over a pot of simmering soup, you tend it. When you cultivate a garden, you tend the plants. When you tend to someone who’s sick, you sit by their side. Grief tending is gentle, non-interventional, and led by the arising needs and experience of the grieving person.

Grief tending is creating a place and time to feel safe to grieve in your own way and in your own time with an experienced guide. When your grief is well-tended, you feel heard, able to ride grief’s waves, and eventually open to the positive transformation that sorrow invites.

Some people who work with grieving people call themselves “grief coaches.” But the role of a coach is to bring out the best in people. Frankly, we are not at our best when we are grieving—and we don’t need to be! I like that the word “tend” comes from the idea of stretching, as in reaching out one’s hand.

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Create a new story of loss.

Grief often leaves us feeling numb, powerless, and lost. When nothing makes sense and everything we know feels broken, we are called to slow down, listen, and make small, beautiful things.

I encourage bite-size habits of quiet, stillness, and creating to support your grieving. While we never “move on” from some losses, creativity opens a portal to eventually making meaning from our loss, a touchpoint for healing and re-entering life and love.

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  • GRIEF RETREAT PARTICIPANT

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    Robin creates and holds a beautifully supportive and present container to share what is most precious. We need more spaces and practices like this in our culture.

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  • SPIRITUAL DIRECTION SEEKER

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    Robin possesses an exceptional ability to facilitate self-discovery. She helped me gain a deeper understanding of myself, allowing me to identify my intentions with clarity. Her guidance extended beyond mere self-awareness; she played a key role in helping me spiritually align myself, creating a solid foundation for the journey ahead.

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  • MEDITATION & WRITING RETREAT PARTICIPANT

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    I am reflecting on the deep and nourishing experience you created and offered. You are a master teacher and facilitator. There was nothing I would change. Your clarity, your ease, your presence, your right encouragements at the right time, your insights, your teachings sweetly stitched into the experience.

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  • HEALING MEDITATION RECIPIENT

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    Thank you so much for your reminder of the truth of our connectedness, and for all the practical, physical suggestions you offered about how to be with my feelings. I am deeply grateful for your care, wisdom and discernment.  I'd really like to do more things like this with you again.

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