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Through the Dark Woods
by Josea Tamira Crossley
Navigating grief and trauma - ancestral healing - cultural repair - village building - deep nature connection. What will it take to rebuild culture in a world where we've lost so much? Schools don't teach this stuff, Western society has spent the last 1000 years destroying these old ways of knowing, but are these skills the essential ingredients needed for us to navigate a global crisis of ecocide? Josea is a Relational Somatic Therapist, Griefworker and founder of Through the Dark Woods ~ Real Life Skills for Navigating Grief & Trauma www.joseatamiracrossley.com/dark-woods
Episodes
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On Harms Done, Uncovering the Web of Secrecy & How We Repair
Hello Everyone, You may have heard the recent allegations against Francis Weller made via a Substack article by one of his long-term mentees who worked with him closely for 5 years. I’m not going to link this article here as, unfortunately, I have zero trust or respect for this person, and I…
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Introducing My Amazing Husband!!
Men Grieve Differently. Or Do They??? The truth is, we don’t really know. Or at least, I don’t think we know. I mean, I’m sure there might be scientific studies, but honestly, do we really need more scientific solutions in the world of grief? Don’t we all just need some space to breathe and be...
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Rainbow Threads – Queer Community Grief Ritual with Aiden Lamb
This was another super fun conversation, as I got to reconnect with Aiden Lamb, who was a part of the first ever cohort of the Grief Tending & Ritual Facilitation training waaaay back in 2023. (Which feels like 100 years ago, seriously)… Aiden had a baby the same year he did the training, and so…
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A Vision for Healing in the Black Community – West African Wailing Rituals with Selina Stanford
Selina Stanford’s spiritual life began before she can even remember it — steeped in the Black church, in her parents’ devotion, in a lineage of prayer and praise. But her journey didn’t stop there. When her father died the same year she would begin college, she was stopped in her tracks and began...
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Initiation of the Dark Woods ~ Josea's Story
I've been talking to tons of folks these past few weeks as we're taking applications & interviews for the fall cohort of our Level 1 Grief Tending & Ritual Facilitation Training, and a lot of times people are asking me the same question – how did you end up doing this work/what is your background…
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Deep Self Care for Grief Tenders ~ Bending Time for Deep Rest & Recovery
In this final episode of this series, we explore the philosophical and practical foundation of deep self care for facilitators of this work — through the lens of understanding our temporal reality through the Mythoarchetypes of two Greek gods of time. If you have ever said that you ‘don’t have...
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Making a Living in Sacred Work: Business Models for Collective Liberation
What is the reality of making a living in this sacred work ~ is it possible to do what you love and thrive?? The answer is YES, and in this episode, we’re going to talk about HOW. …You came to this path because you were called. Because you walked through your own dark woods and you know in your...
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Grief Tending Foundations ~ Episode 5 of Rooted in Thriving ~ Grief Tending for Collective Liberation Podcast Series
Hi Loves, I’ve been in bed with the flu most of this past 8 days. It’s been one of those weird ones where you think your getting better and then it moves to a different area of your body. Without to many graphic details, the word for the last 3 days has been gastrointestinal. Not fun, but I’m…
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Grief Tending in France with Adeline Lefebvre
Join us on Tuesday March 3rd for A Wake for Our Collective Sorrows ~ a Community Grief & Praise Session In the Irish tradition, a wake (faire) is a gathering after death to honour life – with tears and laughter, stories and songs, and wild humor (craic) being integral parts. It’s a grief ritual –...
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Grief Tending & Developmental Trauma Healing
Join us on Tuesday March 3rd for A Wake for Our Collective Sorrows ~ a Community Grief & Praise Session In the Irish tradition, a wake (faire) is a gathering after death to honour life – with tears and laughter, stories and songs, and wild humor (craic) being integral parts. It’s a grief ritual –...
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Choiceless Choices with Dr. Jane Spielman
Episode #2 of our 8 part series - Rooted in Thriving ~ Grief Tending for Collective Liberation In today’s episode, I’m talking to our community elder, Jane Spielman. Jane worked as an educator for 50 years, supporting transformative, inquiry-based literacy for children from birth through…
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The Wild Tender // Tisha Washington, SW
More details for : Roots of Ritual Grief Tending Foundations Training https://darkwoodsofgrief.com/roots-of-ritual/ Grief Support Group https://darkwoodsofgrief.com/dark-woods/ About Tisha Washington : "I come to this work with an open heart, honoring the many ways people navigate grief,...
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Soul-led Business & Aligned Alchemy with Ellie Seilern of Sacred BusinessAcademy
Aligned Alchemy ~ Foundations for Soul-led Business begins January 13th, 2025 CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE & REGISTER This is for you if: 🌀 You know your business/project is a sacred expression of your soul's purpose 🌀 You're averse to hustle-based, performance and "strategic" plans that ignore the...
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Rest as Spiritual Warfare with Tecca Thompson of the Rested Black Woman
Tecca Thompson is a Rest Doula and somatic guide, and graduate of the Roots of Ritual: Grief Tending Foundations Level 1 Facilitation Training. She supports Black women in laying down exhaustion and reclaiming rest as a sacred birthright. Through breath, story, and nervous system care, Tecca...
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Dr. Martha Jo Atkins & Being With Death
In this episode we had the pleasure of speaking with Dr. Martha Jo Atkins who is a licensed professional counselor and supervisor (LPC-S), speaker, author, coach, and founder of Dying School and Soul Story Films. With more than 30 years of experience, she provides safe, compassionate space for...
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Queer Grief Circles, Conscious Parenting & Building the World We Want to Live In
In this episode, we welcome Aiden, graduate of the 2023 Dark Woods Grief Tending & Ritual Facilitator Training. Aiden shares how grief work weaves through his life in Edmonton, where he lives as a trans man with his wife Jana, their baby, and their dog. From hosting small grief support groups in...
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Tribe of the Broken Hearted
In this podcast we have a heartfelt conversation with Dr. Jane Spielman on tending both personal and collective grief in these troubled times. We explore grief as sacred activism, and the many forms resistance can take beyond the front lines. With reflections on embodied self-care, communal...
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Sanaz Hosseini - Grief, Growth, and Gathering: Reclaiming Our Wholeness
Having navigated her own path through grief many times, Sanaz is passionate about helping others find their way. As an Iranian woman and an immigrant, she has faced multiple forms of loss, and what is coined as disenfranchised grief, often without access to resources or community support. This...
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Natasha Edmunds - Grief Tending for Conflict Resolution
Natasha Edmunds is a conflict resolution consultant, coach, mediator, facilitator and community organizer. She helps businesses, organizations and individuals transform conflict into solutions, strengthen relationships, build cohesive teams, communicate effectively, and find common ground to...
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Sabrina Simon - Motherwork & Grief Tending
Sabrina Simon is a graduating student of the 2024 Dark Woods Grief Tending & Ritual Facilitation Training. She is actively co-creating grief-tending spaces in Eugene, Oregon as well as online, including in our Dark Woods Grief Support Group. She is holding the budding vision of what she calls,...
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Office Hours w/Josea & Dr. Jane - Conversations on Grief, Love, Life and Moving Forward with Purpose, Despite Everything.
The process of making space for grief is what gives us access to a healthy, full range of emotions. This includes; healthy fear, anger, sorrow and it even begins to make room for JOY to enter our lives again. It keeps our eyes open to the love and beauty of the world. In this live session we aim…
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Supporting Your Healing with the Well Ancestors with Jane Spielman, PhD & Madison Steadwell
So many of us long for the feeling of village, for tradition, for connection, for guidance from elders - especially in times of deep personal grief and/or collective societal upheaval. Yet where do we turn in the wake of a culture so broken? Sankofa is a Twi word from the Akan tribe in Ghana…
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A Sense of Place - A Refugee Perspective on Connection with the Land and the Grief of Leaving
I invited Silvia to do this episode with me because I wanted to explore the grief of the loss of place - our sense of home and ancestral connection with the land. I think you will find our conversation both mind & heart opening. Silvia was born and raised in Argentina. She was forced to leave...
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Uplifting Palestinian Voices with Daniela & Caroline Abedrabbo
In this episode, I interview 3 of the women from our Dark Woods of Grief Team - Jane Spielman (Jewish), Amber Keith (Irish-Canadian who lived in Egypt & travelled through Israel & Palestine) & Daniela Abedrabbo (Palestinian-Lebanese). We also welcome Caroline Abedrabbo, Daniela's sister. They…
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Grieving our Beloved Animal Companions with Rachel Augusta
Rachel has spent more than 5,000 hours in private sessions helping animals who are sick from diseases, old age, injuries, or suffering from trauma. In addition to the private sessions she offers, I have pre-recorded healings that have healed thousands of animals. She created the EmPAWer App that...
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Grieving Through the Holidays
In this episode I talk about the factors that may make our experience of grief is extra heavy during the holiday season. Here are links & references I mentioned: Link to register for Winter Solstice Grief & Praise Releasing Ritual December 21st 5-7pm https://cart.darkwoodsofgrief.com/win... Join…
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Dawn Dancing Otter - Grief, Healing, Ceremony & Sacred Time
In this episode Dawn and I have a witchy kitchen table conversation about ceremony, rites of passage, sacred time keeping, grief, healing etc... Dawn Dancing Otter (DDO) is a mother, scholar, writer, poet, storyteller, sacred rites and psychedelic ceremonialist, healer, crone, and activist. She…
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Ning Tendo - Use the Healing Power of Dreams to Reunite with Your Dead Loved One and Rewrite Your Grief Story.
Ning is a published poet, grief guide, spiritual healer and dream yogi specializing in the intersection of the healing power of dreams, rituals, and spiritual constellations as potent tools for helping the bereaved evolve and continue their relationship with their dead loved one, learn how to...
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Helping Your Kids Get Calm and Regulated with Colleen Adrian, MN
Colleen Adrian, MN, helps parents of sensitive spirited kids learn connected parenting skills so they can build a strong connected relationship with them, and leave behind authoritarian methods that break their bond. She’s also the author of Freeing Your Child from Self-Criticism and…
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Spirit Work While the Crisis Reigns with Stephen Jenkinson
Correction: Through the Dark Woods - Real Life Skills for Navigating Grief & Trauma begins again September 26th, 2022. For more details and to register go to www.throughthedarkwoods.ca Culture activist, worker, author ~ Jenkinson teaches internationally and is the creator and principal instructor...
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Day Schildkret - Hello, Goodbye: 75 Rituals for Loss, Celebration & Change
Day Schildkret is internationally renowned as the author, artist and teacher behind the Morning Altars movement, inspiring tens of thousands of people to make life more beautiful and meaningful through ritual, nature and art. BuzzFeed calls his work, “a celebration of nature and life.” We discuss...
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Nervous System Healing & Building Resilience
Irene Lyon, MSC, is a trauma healing and nervous system expert, somatic practitioner, and founder of the Smartbody, Smartmind online nervous system healing program. She has taught thousands of people how to "become their own medicine," through the simple yet profound nervous system…
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Grief, Trauma & Adult Rites of Passage with John Wolfstone - Unedited
Note: I chose to leave this episode unedited even though I had a moment of going completely blank in the beginning :) Truth: I'm a perfectionist, and so leaving this unedited is an act of allowing that part of me to take a vacation :) I also wanted to give you, listener, the opportunity to see me...
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From Numb to Awake ~ Grief & Emergency Medical Professional Life
Chris has been in the fast-paced field of emergency medicine for over 17 years. He's a frontline worker, and a dad, and was kind of a normal guy - scientific-minded and skeptical of grief work, but willing to give it a try. He took a deep dive with us this past spring in Through the Dark Woods -...
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Polly Orr ~ Permaculture, Community Living and Grief Work
Polly Orr is the community coordinator for Moss Rock Farm on Salt Spring Island, a radical permaculture project specializing in living soil food production with the intention of both living and demonstrating how we can, as humans, live in deep harmony with the land and each other in a carbon...
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Navigating grief and trauma - ancestral healing - cultural repair - village building - deep nature connection. What will it take to rebuild culture in a world where we've lost so much? Schools don't teach this stuff, Western society has spent the last 1000 years destroying these old ways of knowing, but are these skills the essential ingredients needed for us to navigate a global crisis of ecocide? Josea is a Relational Somatic Therapist, Griefworker and founder of Through the Dark Woods ~ Real Life Skills for Navigating Grief & Trauma www.joseatamiracrossley.com/dark-woods
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Josea Tamira Crossley
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