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"Recognition of Humanity should be the central focus of Human Existence" ~ Paulo Freire
"I dream of a world where I can lay my vulnerabilities out there, open for everyone, until they are my strengths. I am longing for this."
Harper Steele
5 Neuro-Tools for Grief & Loss
5 Neuro-Tools for Grief & Loss
What Can Neuro-Tools do for YOU?
What Can Neuro-Tools do for YOU?
Toxic Positivity: What is it and How to Avoid It?
Toxic Positivity: What is it and How to Avoid It?
What is toxic positivity? How do people engaging in toxic positivity impact people who are struggling with any issue? Learn how to identify and avoid toxic positivity in yourself and in others. Additionally this discusses what to say to people who approach you with toxic positivity.
Beware the Grifters!
Beware the Grifters!
Grifters abound in the "healing" profession and community. Watch this video for some information on how to avoid those who are preying on your vulnerability, pain, suffering, difficulty and/or struggle. Be CAUTIOUS with your heart, mind and psyche - treat it with the care it deserves with choosing who you work with.
This Site is NOT a Replacement for Therapy, Medication or Medical Treatment
This Site is NOT a Replacement for Therapy, Medication or Medical Treatment
For Information on Grief/Loss from Suicide, go to the Surviving Loss from Suicide page.
Neuro-Tools for Grief/Loss:
*BE = Brain Exercise
OH Meditation for When Grief Rocks Your World NeuroMeditation
OH Meditation for When Grief Rocks Your World NeuroMeditation
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This meditation is pretty self explanatory. It can offer some sense of soothing to the pain.
This practice uses imagery of the tree of life; drawing energy up from your roots and down from your limbs and leaves, allowing them to mingle, grow and connect you with the vitality and force of life.
Music: Tree of Life by Inner Lotus Music on YouTube
This practice guides you through shifting your attention inward to build connection with and awareness of what is happening in the body (interoception), to increase awareness of nervous system state, which can help you determine which tools, or interventions, to turn to. Regular practice increases your ability to listen and notice.
Music: Beyond by Zen Celesta on YouTube
This can be helpful for when we feel pushed off balance by our loss or grief
This practice anchors you into your stable, rooted self through the vagus nerve; balances the mind and the nervous system. Regular practice increases your connection with, and awareness of, your Vagus Nerve and nervous system state.
Music: Deep Meditative State -Find Stillness & Inner Peace by Inner Lotus Music on YouTube
Holding Joy AND Sorrow
Holding Joy AND Sorrow
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This meditation supports you in expanding yourself as you hold both your joys and your sorrows.
Being the Mindful Mountain NeuroMeditation
This practice anchors you in your strong, immoveable center and allows you to rest in strength as you observe all thought, feeling and sensation that arises
Music: Relaxing Meditation Music Heals Body, Mind Soul 6 by Paradise Tonight on YouTube
Increasing Compassion for Self & Others NeuroMeditation
This practice is the basis and foundation of Open Heart meditations. It increases love and compassion for the self and for all others sharing existing on the planet right now.
Music: Let Your Soul Speak by Inner Lotus Music on YouTube
Awe is beneficial for everyone, especially when dealing with anything difficult. Connecting with this feeling is restorative for the brain and the nervous system (for heart, mind and body). Do this often - even for a few minutes when you are stressed/overwhelmed/hurting. This practice guides you through remembering, with all of your senses, an experience of being in a place where you FELT AWE.
Music: Innerself by Zen Celesta on YouTube
Watch for the GEMS
Watch for the GEMS
Grief Can Upend our Sense of Safety in the World
Preparation for the Cave of Safety - How to Create YOURS
The Cave of Safety NeuroMeditation
The system responds and can return to calm when you send it messages of safety. This practice increases feelings of inner safety, and is helpful when you need a buffer from the world, a deep sense of safety, unconditional love and support, or when you are doing difficult work.
Music: Safe and Loved by Inner Lotus Music on YouTube
When Grief & Loss Throw us Into the UNKNOWN
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Mindfully Holding the Unknown
Mindfully Holding the Unknown
This meditation aids you in accepting and facing the unknown through connecting with your core immovable self and anchoring into your strength.
Accepting What IS
Accepting What IS
When you are ready... this meditation can help with acceptance of loss
This meditation helps you to gently stretch into acceptance of things that may be difficult
OH Meditation for When Grief Rocks Your World
OH Meditation for When Grief Rocks Your World
This meditation is pretty self explanatory. It can offer some sense of soothing to the pain.
Holding BOTH When You Feel Conflicting Things
Holding BOTH When You Feel Conflicting Things
This meditation can be helpful when you feel pulled in opposite directions or the splitting experience arising from what seems to be conflicting thoughts, feelings, or sensations. By helping you stretch and expand the meditation this supports you so that you don’t have to pick either/or, and rather can hold BOTH things.
Tools for Increasing Connection
Using Neuro-Tools for Connection
Using Neuro-Tools for Connection
The Net of Indra & Ouroboros as Symbols of Connection
The Net of Indra & Ouroboros as Symbols of Connection
The Net of Indra
The Net of Indra
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This Open Heart meditation increases the felt sense of being woven into the very fabric of life
Music: Village Love Story by Buddha’s Lounge on YouTube
This practice guides you through increasing love and compassion for yourself. Observe yourself and how the experiences of life have impacted you. Through the lens of love, connect with both giving and receiving whatever is needed, fostering and growing your compassion and understanding for yourself.
Music: Meditation for Inner Peace by Peaceful Meditation Music YouTube
Increasing Compassion for Self & Others NeuroMeditation
This practice is the basis and foundation of Open Heart meditations. It increases love and compassion for the self and for all others sharing existing on the planet right now.
Music: Let Your Soul Speak by Inner Lotus Music on YouTube
Open Heart: Being the Tree & the Forest
This practice uses imagery of being both the single rooted tree AND the entire forest to Open the Heart and increase connection. Weave yourself into life.
Music: Relaxing Meditation Music Heals Mind, Body, Soul 6 YouTube
Breathing with the Tree of Life NeuroMeditation
This practice uses imagery of the tree of life; drawing energy up from your roots and down from your limbs and leaves, allowing them to mingle, grow and connect you with the vitality and force of life.
Music: Tree of Life by Inner Lotus Music on YouTube
The Law of Kindness for Connection
The Law of Kindness
The Law of Kindness
Living by this law increases both connection with, and compassion for, yourself and others. If you only live by one law, let it be this! Helps you and helps the world.
To Quiet the Mind for Sleep
Mind Racing? Try this FIRST
Molly's Dancing the Cingulate NeuroMeditation
Use this practice to balance the mind, increase focus and attention, and most importantly to interrupt the signaling from the amygdala so that you can bring your system into CALM. This is my version of one from the NMI page on insight timer and also on this page.
Music: Limitless Focus - 40 Hz by Study Sonic Focus on YouTube
Awe is beneficial for everyone, especially when dealing with anything difficult. Connecting with this feeling is restorative for the brain and the nervous system (for heart, mind and body). Do this often - even for a few minutes when you are stressed/overwhelmed/hurting. This practice guides you through remembering, with all of your senses, an experience of being in a place where you FELT AWE.
Music: Innerself by Zen Celesta on YouTube
This practice uses space imagery to quiet the mind for sleep.
Music: Peaceful Mind Meditation 7 by Paradise Tonight on YouTube
When Guilt or Regret are Connected to Your Grief/Loss
This practice guides you through increasing love and compassion for yourself. Observe yourself and how the experiences of life have impacted you. Through the lens of love, connect with both giving and receiving whatever is needed, fostering and growing your compassion and understanding for yourself.
Music: Meditation for Inner Peace by Peaceful Meditation Music YouTube
Meditation for Self Forgiveness
Meditation for Self Forgiveness
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This meditation gently guides you through sitting with your deep regrets and assists you in allowing and receiving the balm of self forgiveness
When Our Grief & Loss Lead to Depression
Go to the Depression Page for More information on using Neuro-Tools for Depression
5 Tools for the Ebb & Flow of Depression
Meditation for the Ebb & Flow of Depression
Meditation for the Ebb & Flow of Depression
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This meditation assists you in moving through the waters of Depression which ebb and flow.
My Favorite NeuroMeditations for Grief & Loss from the NeuroMeditation Institute:
If you haven't yet follow the steps below to access these meditations:
Download the Insight Timer app
Search for the NeuroMeditation Institute page within the app and Follow
Open any of the links for the meditations below and bookmark for quicker and easier future access
Therapy is VERY Helpful Through the Journey of Grief & Loss
Find a verified, licensed Therapist. This tool allows you to filter for many different things: insurance, gender, age, education, specialty, style etc...
This website has SO many AMAZING resources for LGBTQ+ people. They are broken down in clear and usable ways.
This link takes you to the crisis section of a page, which has very important info. If you scroll up on that page, you wil find more links for many other resources.
If you are feeling suicidal you are NEVER alone... JUST dial 988
If you are feeling suicidal you are NEVER alone... JUST dial 988
Or Click Here for a link to their website and talk/text links or click the logo at left.
WARNING!!!
The Trump Administration cut funding for the
specific LGBTQ+ part of the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline
Beginning in JULY 2025
If you are LGBTQ+, you will not receive the quality of the previous (specialized and appropriate) support through the 988 line and will be better supported by calling or texting other crisis support lines
Here are some options for other LGBTQ+ Suicide and Crisis support:
The Trevor Project: Offers crisis intervention and suicide prevention services for LGBTQ young people (ages 13-24). They provide a lifeline (1-866-488-7386), text support (Text START to 678-678), and online chat, available 24/7.
Trans Lifeline: A peer support hotline run by and for transgender people, offering direct emotional and financial support, available 24/7. The US number is 1-877-565-8860 and the Canadian number is 1-877-330-6366.
LGBT National Hotline: Provides peer counseling, information, and resources for callers of all ages. Available Monday-Friday, 4pm - 12am ET and Saturday, 12pm - 5pm ET at 1-888-843-4564.
LGBT National Youth Talkline: Specifically for youth up to age 25, offering information, support, and local resources. Available Monday-Friday, 4pm - 12am ET and Saturday, 12pm - 5pm ET at 1-800-246-7743.
Helpful Video I recommend watching
The Science of Trauma & Grief
The Science of Trauma & Grief
This is long, and all of it helpful and informative, but go to around 1 hr to find the part about Grief and Loss
The Vagus Nerve & Polyvagal Theory
What is the Vagus Nerve and Why Should You Learn About it?
Go to the Vagus Nerve and Polyvagal Theory Page for Images, Links and More Information
Time in Nature is Helpful for Grief and Loss:
The Powerful Impact of Nature
The Powerful Impact of Nature
Various Ways to Access Nature: Especially When You Can't Get There
Various Ways to Access Nature: Especially When You Can't Get There
Temperament, Personality and Perception
Why Understanding your Personality Type is Helpful
Why Understanding your Personality Type is Helpful
What is Your Temperament and Why it Matters?
What is Your Temperament and Why it Matters?
What Does Perception Have to Do With It All?
What Does Perception Have to Do With It All?
Courses for Using Neuro-Tools to Support You Through YOUR Journey of Grief &Loss
I am currently focused on creating the following self-paced online courses:
Neuro-Tools for Vagus Nerve & Nervous System Regulation
Adaptive Resilience: Neuro-Tools for Stress Regulation
Interrupting Anxiety: Neuro-Tools for Calm State Regulation
Shifting State: Neuro-Tools for Depressive Cycles
Reach out to me if you would like to be notified when they are ready, or to request one of the other courses listed on the available courses page
Learn more about the ways each style of NeuroMeditation impact the brain, or how to determine which style is right for you!
They have a free survey, free short classes and longer courses, trainings and certification available.
When Your Grief or Loss is Connected to the World's LACK of Understanding Gender -
Are you grieving the loss of family, or family members, because they can't understand the facts about Gender?
Are you grieving the loss of place in community or church because they can't understand the facts about Gender?
These are intense losses and rock our world. These are a few videos and that you can check out for validation and scientific proof that there are NOT only two genders, or share them with those you love and hopefully they will be open to learning.
Also below are a couple books which cover gender in the archaeological record and the understanding of gender in Native North America.
The Facts About Gender
Transgender Neurobiology
skip the long intro
Brain Gender
Skip the long intro
Neurobiology of Trans-sexuality
Changing Ones: Third and Fourth Genders in Native North America
Changing Ones: Third and Fourth Genders in Native North America
by Will Roscoe
Ancient Bodies, Ancient Lives: Sex, Gender, and Archaeology
Ancient Bodies, Ancient Lives: Sex, Gender, and Archaeology
by Rosemary A. Joyce
Go to the pages below for more information and Neuro-Tools for each:
Remember to go to the Begin Here and the Other Helpful Resources page for more information, tools, resources and book recommendations that are valuable for the journey through the labyrinth of Grief and Loss.
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