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About
I came to this work through listening — to my body, to grief, and to the living world.
I'm Cadence Moffat McCann and like many people, I spent years sensing that something was wrong in ways I couldn’t easily name. Not just personal pain, but a deeper rupture — between people and land, body and spirit, individual healing and collective responsibility. I felt it as exhaustion, longing, and a quiet grief that didn’t have a place to land.
Over time, I began to understand healing less as fixing what is broken and more as reconnecting with an inner cadence — the natural rhythm of body, heart, mind, and spirit. Cadence is the flow through which life moves within us. When we lose touch with that, we can feel overwhelmed, depleted, numb, or lost. When we reconnect with it, we often find greater presence, clarity, resilience, and a deeper sense of belonging.
Inner Cadence grew from this understanding. My work is not about helping people become someone different, but supporting them in listening deeply enough to reconnect with their own rhythm and move through life with greater trust and connection.
How I Work
My approach is grounded in the understanding that healing is relational. We heal not in isolation, but through restored connection — within ourselves, with others, and with the more-than-human world.
I draw from somatic practices, nature connection, and grief work to support people in slowing down, listening deeply, and reconnecting with what has been pushed aside or carried alone. Rather than overriding symptoms or striving for constant improvement, we follow what the body, the land, and the moment are asking for.
Grief is not treated as a problem to solve, but as an expression of love and belonging. The body is not something to control, but a source of wisdom. The land is not a backdrop, but a living presence and guide.
Background & Experience
My journey into grief tending began through my own encounters with loss, burnout, and a growing awareness of the sorrows of the world. Over time, I came to understand grief not as something to fix or move beyond, but as a natural response to what we love — an expression of our connection to people, places, communities, and the living world.
For over 20 years, my work has been rooted in supporting people through experiences of growth, transition, and change. My background includes land-based and experiential education, community facilitation, and creating spaces where people can slow down, reflect, and reconnect.
During COVID, I began creating outdoor community grief rituals. Through witnessing people gather to acknowledge and share their grief, I experienced the profound need for spaces where grief could be witnessed collectively and held in relationship with the body, community, and the living world. Since 2020, I have been offering grief support with individuals and groups through one-to-one sessions, community gatherings, and grief rituals.
I hold a Bachelor’s degree in Indigenous Studies, a Bachelor of Education in Outdoor and Experiential Education, and a Master’s in Environmental Education. These studies have shaped the way I understand relationship, belonging, learning, and our connection with the living world, and continue to inform how I accompany others through grief and transition.
Mentors & Influences
This work has been shaped by mentors, teachers, communities, and the land itself.
I am especially grateful for the guidance of Jeannette Armstrong, Hilary Leighton, and Shauna Janz, as well as the teachings of Joanna Macy, Malidoma Somé, Sobonfu Somé, Francis Weller, and Martín Prechtel.
Their perspectives on grief, belonging, ritual, reciprocity, and our relationship with the living world continue to influence how I listen, learn, and accompany others.
Commitment to Practice
I hold this work with humility and care, recognizing that much of what informs my practice comes from earth-based and communal traditions that predate modern therapeutic frameworks.
I am committed to practicing within my scope, engaging in continued learning and self-reflection, and referring to other professionals when additional support is needed.
My role is not to fix or remove grief, but to accompany people as they develop a deeper relationship with their own experience — with curiosity and compassion.
Place & Land Acknowledgement
I live and work on the lands of K'ómoks peoples, and this place shapes how I understand healing, belonging, and responsibility.
My relationship with this land is ongoing and imperfect. I approach it not as something to own or use, but as a living presence that teaches through relationship and reciprocity. I offer this acknowledgement as a practice of remembering that this place is living, storied, and shaped by ongoing Indigenous presence, resilience, and care.
Why This Work Matters to Me
I believe the crises we face — ecological, cultural, spiritual — are rooted in a story of separation. When we forget our belonging, harm becomes easier. When grief has no place, it turns into numbness, urgency, or despair.
Tending grief is not only personal work. It is a way of remembering our connection — to ourselves, each other, and the living world.
When people come back into relationship with their bodies and the world around them, they are better able to care, respond with discernment, and participate in creating a more connected future.
An Invitation
If you feel drawn to this work, you don’t need to have it all figured out.
You may be tired. You may be grieving. You may simply sense that the way you’ve been taught to heal is incomplete.
If you are willing to listen, to slow down, and reconnect with yourself, others, and the living world, I would be honoured to walk with you.