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Marshall has been serving communities touched by suicide for more than 5 years. She served on the NC Chapter Board for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention on the Loss & Healing and Public Policy Committees for several years. For the past 5 years, she's been lovingly and devotedly facilitating support groups for Survivors of Suicide Loss. Using her own lived experience of surviving her father's suicide, independent research and what she's learned from folks she has companioned, she has developed a program to anchor others who are grieving suicide losses. The course combines body-awareness components and emotional acceptance to bring balance and address the deep grief of folks all over the world.
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Dec 18, 2025 ∙ 7 min
The Best Reiki Practitioners Don’t Have Perfect Lives
Choosing a Healer Who Gets It Photo: Vanessa Owen & Gavin Stewart You know what nobody tells you when you're looking for a reiki healer? The best ones usually don't have it all figured out. Don't get me wrong; I'm not saying they are huge messes. It would be hard to start and operate a reiki practice in that case. They're human. They're still learning. They're navigating life while also holding space for others. But what they do have is devotion to their own healing and a call to serve...
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Nov 11, 2025 ∙ 4 min
Listening to Grief: Where Our Losses Point Us Toward Healing
(Part 2 of 2) In Part 1, we looked at how grief—both personal and collective—carries sacred information about what we're losing and what matters most. We looked at how our culture struggles to hold space for even tangible losses, let alone the perceived, energetic, and collective grief we're all carrying. We named the grief of late-stage capitalism and how the system that creates our grief also denies us time to feel it. Now, the question becomes: what (tf) do we do with all of this? Photo by...
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Oct 21, 2025 ∙ 5 min
Grief as Prophecy: What Our Losses Are Trying to Tell Us
(Part 1 of 2) This two-part series explo res grief as sacred information rather than something to simply "get through." In Part 1, we'll look at what our personal and collective losses are trying to tell us. In Part 2, we'll explore how to work with grief as a teacher and guide toward healing. What if grief isn't something to get through, but something to listen to and to be guided by? Photo by Anthony Lim / Unsplash What can I say? We live in a culture that treats grief like a problem to...
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