Cadence Moffat McCann

What our culture has forgotten about grief, thresholds, and becoming fully human The moment you hear the news that someone you love has died, or you receive a life-changing diagnosis, everything changes. Your whole world flips upside down. Priorities shift. The future you imagined disappears, and suddenly everything looks and feels different. Fear, shock, confusion, and grief often arrive all at once. It can be an incredibly overwhelming time, especially when there is so little support or...

How my own experience of grief shaped the way I accompany others through theirs Photo credit: Hazel Volk Before I began accompanying others through grief, I spent years exploring what it means to support people through difficult times. My master’s research focused on practitioner process in wilderness therapy. Together with my colleagues, I explored the question: what does it mean to thrive in our work and lives? The title of my thesis emerged from that inquiry: Practicing What We Preach. At...

How grief reconnects us to ourselves, each other, and the living world. Photo credit: Johannes Plenio from Pexels I remember during my master’s program, we went on a two-week spiral of Joanna Macy’s Work That Reconnects. We moved, layer by layer, together into the depths of our despair. There was something almost disorienting about how far we were willing to go. And then something opened. It felt like each of us, in our own way, cracked our hearts wide enough to let ourselves feel more deeply...