IN IT TOGETHER
Where sorrow meets solace.
Grief touches every life, yet our culture does everything it can to move us through it quickly. The Grievery offers another way: a place to bring your loss without a timeline, to be witnessed rather than managed, and to discover what grief can open in us — compassion, connection, even aliveness.
Experienced facilitators and guides.
Rebecca Churt
Founder, death and grief worker
Rebecca founded The Grievery to make space for grief as something communal, not solitary. She sees loss as a sacred threshold to walk together rather than alone. Her approach sits at the intersection of grief and spiritual care, rooted in the conviction that these two are not separate practices but one: to grieve well is a spiritual act, and to tend the soul is always, in some form, a practice of grief.
"Death and grief work are about cultivating our capacity to be with thresholds of change and loss."
Luna Liebling
Therapist, somatic practitioner, ritualist
Luna brings over a decade of experience supporting children and adults through grief, including years facilitating grief groups in Philadelphia public schools. They hold a certificate in Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy from The Embody Lab, with training in Internal Family Systems and ecotherapy.
"The more we can feel our grief, the more we are able to access our joy."
WHY WE STARTED THIS
Grief needs space.
Most grief support separates the emotional from the spiritual. We go to therapy for feelings, and reach for spirituality for the meaning. We don't make that division. At The Grievery, grief is the spiritual practice: a place where sorrow, mystery, and the sacred are held together rather than parceled out to different rooms. We bring ritual and reverence into this work not as decoration, but as structure.
We also believe community can hold us through life's most uncertain moments. When grief feels too large to carry alone, we need spaces to bring it — to tend our broken hearts together, with tears and laughter, silence and awkwardness, held as equally sacred.
The Grievery is a queer-owned, independent business, built slowly and shaped by lived experience. We hold grief and joy side by side, and we're committed to a liberatory approach to grief that honors the personal, the collective, and the complexity of every loss.
A different approach to care.
We don't treat grief as a problem with a fix, or a feeling with a finish line. There's no agenda here, no five stages to move through in order, no destination called "closure." We resist pathologizing grief, and we resist rushing it. Instead, we hold it as sacred, cyclical, and transformative: a relationship that keeps evolving, the way any relationship does.
Our role isn't to hand you answers. It's to walk the threshold with you and to help you build a life that has room for loss and change in any form.
Modern grief tending, rooted in wisdom.
We draw from a wide lineage of practice:
The Gates of Grief · Somatic Experiencing · Zen Buddhist Principles · Trauma-Informed Care · Hospicing Modernity.
Modern grief-tending carries the wisdom of countless generations and traditions, some more visible than others. We name our influences with gratitude, and hold honestly that many of these practices emerged from histories of colonization and inequity. Building a relationship with grief, in turn, expands our capacity for solidarity while recognizing how systems of oppression shape our losses.
This is deep-time work: alive, generative, and ever-evolving.