Life's Thresholds

Life's Thresholds
"Loren has changed my life forever. As I have faced losing loved ones, chronic illness, and life's many challenges, she has held me in unconditional kindness, and opened up an entire world of spiritual support I never had access to. I treasure Loren with all my Heart..." ~H.K.
Whether we are undergoing the loss of a loved one, surviving and healing from a life-threatening illness, or experiencing an empty nest for the first time... when we undergo a significant loss or change along our life-path, we encounter a threshold.

Embedded in life’s thresholds lives a ubiquitous, age-old template:

Death of identity
When a significant element of our outer world falls away, we often undergo an inner death of an aspect of our known identity.

Grief & shedding
As we grieve our inner and outer losses, and release attachments to them, we begin a process of shedding the beliefs and perspectives that accompanied these attachments.

Traversing the unknown
Shedding our old identities, we enter a period of not knowing who we are or what our purpose is. We arrive in the spiritual desert of our lives and long for connection to something larger.

Re-illumination & rebirth
In the desert, though spiritual assistance may feel faraway, it is paradoxically very near. Surrendering into the Heart of 'not knowing', we become porous and available to Source, and thus, great healing and re-illumination are possible. Through this process of rebirth, we become more closely aligned with our true purpose and our Soul's medicine.

Return to community & celebration
Returning with our medicine, we are witnessed and celebrated, for the quest we have made, by our communities of beloveds who recognize being deeply served by what we have had the courage to retrieve on behalf of all of Life.

Giving our Soul’s medicine
We go forth into the world, having been gifted the renewal of our Soul's medicine, allowing us to serve in deep alignment with our purpose, each other and our planet.

This is how life designed it. It is the rites of passage journey that accompanies our life as well as our death, and we are meant to practice it, to come to know and trust it. However, we live in a modern culture that no longer implicitly recognizes these processes. Thus, when we are met with life's losses and changes, we do not often receive the necessary support to undergo all phases of the journey, and therefore become atrophied and ‘stuck’ most often in the phase of grief, depression and disconnection from life. Much therapy, therefore, constitutes revisting times in our life-span where this process of transfomation was aborted, and picking up the thread of loss, grief, and healing required to reconnect us back to life, our growth and sense of meaning and purpose.

Through spiritually-centered counseling and healing, Radiant Passages aspires to lend deep support and recognition to life’s diverse thresholds, thus enabling a resurgence in their implicit purpose and re-alignment with their natural healing and medicine.
Let's trust grief together...
"Both my parents passed away within a year of each other. Loren’s emotional and spiritual guidance helped me live through the overwhelming grief with an ever-expanding love for my Mom and Dad. What could have been an overwhelming loss was transformed into a sacred process - beautiful and profound..." ~D.R.

Grief is a mysterious and profoundly challenging force. It has it's own rhythms, intensity and requirements. It does not wait for us, and we do not control it, so it can feel very overwhelming and scary. We are not taught to trust it, and we often do not have models of people in our lives who have trusted grief and moved through to the other side, bearing its gifts.

Grief is meant to undo us.

It's meant to help us honor our losses in only a way our hearts can. It's meant to help us release old attachments connected to the people, places and experiences we have lost, such that we can grow.

It is not a sign that something is wrong with us (as we are often led to believe) it is a sign that the processes of nature are working in and on us accurately. The deeper our attachment to our losses, the deeper this unwinding necessarily must be. If we allow grief to work its intelligence on us, it doesn't last forever.

I know, from traversing the losses of my mother, father, spirit mom & closest friend, as well as the life threatening illness of my daughter, that grief is trustworthy. It has taught me about surrender in ways that no other life experiance has. Through surrender, it has drawn me closer to the preciousness of life and love, and has opened me to a deeper connection beyond life & death, to spirit. I know, from having the honor of accompanying many others along their grief journey, that they, too, can find trust, deepening and renewal through grief.

I would be greatly honored to offer a hand of the circle of support you deserve, toward helping you trust and journey through grief.

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"Loren has changed my life forever. As I have faced losing loved ones, chronic illness, and life's many challenges, she has held me in unconditional kindness, and opened up an entire world of spiritual support I never had access to. I treasure Loren with all my Heart..." ~H.K.

Whether we are undergoing the loss of a loved one, surviving and healing from a life-threatening illness, or experiencing an empty nest for the first time... when we undergo a significant loss or change along our life-path, we encounter a threshold.

Embedded in life’s thresholds lives a ubiquitous, age-old template:

Death of identity

As we grieve our inner and outer losses, and release attachments to them, we begin a process of shedding the beliefs and perspectives that accompanied these attachments.

Traversing the unknown

Shedding our old identities, we enter a period of not knowing who we are or what our purpose is. We arrive in the spiritual desert of our lives and long for connection to something larger.

Re-illumination & rebirth

Return to community & celebration

Returning with our medicine, we are witnessed and celebrated, for the quest we have made, by our communities of beloveds who recognize being deeply served by what we have had the courage to retrieve on behalf of all of Life.

Giving our Soul’s medicine

We go forth into the world, having been gifted the renewal of our Soul's medicine, allowing us to serve in deep alignment with our purpose, each other and our planet.

Through spiritually-centered counseling and healing, Radiant Passages aspires to lend deep support and recognition to life’s diverse thresholds, thus enabling a resurgence in their implicit purpose and re-alignment with their natural healing and medicine.

Let's trust grief together...

Grief is meant to undo us.

It's meant to help us honor our losses in only a way our hearts can. It's meant to help us release old attachments connected to the people, places and experiences we have lost, such that we can grow.

I would be greatly honored to offer a hand of the circle of support you deserve, toward helping you trust and journey through grief.