GRIEF GROUP
Grief as a Living Relationship
Grief is not separate from life. It is a part of loving. A part of losing. A part of being human in a world that is cyclical and ever changing.
And yet, most of us have not been taught how to be with it. We’ve lived in a culture that teaches us to move through it quickly. To try and make sense of it and to contain it. That it is best if you isolate and just carry it alone.
But grief is not something to get over. It is something to be in communion with.
When we grieve intentionally, something begins to shift.
Grief becomes not only pain—but a doorway. A way of honoring what has been lost.
A way of staying connected to what matters. A way of allowing life to move through us, rather than harden around us.
There are gifts in grief. Not in a way that bypasses the depth of it—
but in the way it can open us, deepen us, and bring us back into contact with what is most true.
This space exists to support that kind of grieving.
A Space to Grieve Together
This is not a space where you have to have it all figured out.
You are welcome exactly where you are—in the middle of something, at the beginning, or years into a grief that still lives in your body.
Because grief does not move in straight lines. This is a place where what is real can be live and be held in community together.
Why This Work Matters
We are living in a time where so much is being lost—personally, collectively, quietly, loudly, and all at once.
And yet, there are so few spaces where grief is truly welcomed. Where it is not pathologized.
Not hurried. Not turned into something to fix.
Grief needs space.
It needs witnessing.
For most of human history, grief was not carried alone.It was held in community. Through ritual and shared presence.Through spaces where emotion could move and be metabolized together.
This is what we are remembering here.
Not just how to grieve—but how to grieve together.
We create a field where grief can move through your body, through your voice, and through holding it together in community.
Our Approach
We do not approach grief as something to solve.
We meet it as something alive.
Together, we weave:
Somatic awareness
Ritual and ceremony
Collective witnessing
Gentle support
Space for expression, reflection, and integration
We create a field where grief can move—through your body, through your voice, and through holding it together in community. This is where we get to start to feel the difference between
holding it all in and being held while it moves.
What You Receive
This space is designed to support both depth and integration.
Guided gatherings where grief is welcomed in its many forms
Embodied practices to help you stay connected to your body as you feel
Ritual and ceremony to honor what has been lost and what remains
Community space to witness and be witnessed
Reflection and journaling prompts to support integration
Coaching and facilitation to gently guide what arises
This is not about doing grief “right.”
It is about allowing yourself to be human inside of it.
What Begins to Shift
When grief has space, something changes.
You may begin to feel:
Less alone in what you are carrying
More capacity to stay with your emotions without being overwhelmed
A deeper connection to what you love and value
A softening around what has felt frozen
A sense that grief is not only something that breaks you open—but something that connects you more deeply to life
The Invitation
You don’t need to wait until it feels manageable.
You don’t need to know how to do this.
If something in you is asking for space for breath. For a place to put what you are carrying. This is for you.
Meet Your Facilitators
Melanie Paez
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Melanie Paez, PCC invites us all to remember who we are without the implication that she's leading us somewhere, just serving as a sanctuary for the soul for us to hear ourselves more deeply. Though she has spent a decade gathering professional tools to support this, her greatest skills are innate and timeless. Mediumship, deep listening, and holding what is said and unsaid, she curates experiences based on the need of the moment. Her curiosity and willingness to hold even herself with an open hand makes for an experience that goes beyond prescription. In order to provide some grounding, she incorporates learned skills of a Professional Certified Coach, a Reiki Master, and a partner to hundreds of executives and entrepreneurs over the course of her career who have honed her ability to leverage a person's gifts for the greater good of their communities and to reach their goals. She loves to work with people who face life transitions of all kinds, integrating pivotal experiences as fuel for daily life, and giving voice to the parts of ourselves seeking empowerment.
Chelsea Rose Cotton
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Chelsea Rose Cotton is a soul guide, leadership alchemist, and sacred steward working at the intersection of embodied leadership, ancestral wisdom, and systemic change.
Initiated into a shamanic lineage at the age of thirteen, she spent seventeen years apprenticing with wisdom keepers and elders across Peru, Ecuador, and Mexico. Rooted in earth-based ritual and a worldview shaped by sacred interconnection, her formation was shaped through ceremony, energy healing, and direct apprenticeship with the unseen — cultivating a way of leading that is intuitive, embodied, and deeply ecological.
Alongside her initiatory path, Chelsea spent over a decade in nonprofit leadership development. There, she designed transformational programs, mentored emerging leaders, and built trauma-informed containers for women navigating recovery, advocacy, and systemic inequity. Her work bridges executive coaching, emotional intelligence, and nervous system regulation with shadow work, grief tending, soul retrieval, ancestral repair, and ritual practice.
Chelsea’s practice rests on the belief that personal and collective transformation begins with presence — the courage to meet the whole self and lead from that wholeness. Through private mentorship, retreats, and organizational consulting, she guides individuals and teams toward integrity that is lived, relational, and deeply embodied.
As the Co-founder of The Beauty Way, she is devoted to living a life of Beauty. This includes getting lost in the woods (trees are her people), swinging under the full moon- it feels like flying on a broom ;), and spending time in her happy place in a rustic cabin by the lake with a good bourbon in hand at sunset.
