Death, grief, and psychopomp work

A little over a decade ago, I deeply mourned the loss of a psychiatric client on Yule (2013). I worked at a psychiatric facility, and she was assigned to my caseload. Back then, I was straddling the difficult divide between my psychology career and my shamanic career, and I reached out numerous times to myContinue reading “Death, grief, and psychopomp work”

Death, grief, & psychopomp work

(originally posted from my previous blog on 30 January 2014) This is the hardest blog article I’ve ever had to write. My psychiatric client died. In fact, she died on Yule, around 3am (December 20, 2013). She struggled with schizophrenia her whole life, which affected her ability to cope with the ravages of her pancreaticContinue reading “Death, grief, & psychopomp work”