Roots of Hope Run Deep

Hi Reader,

I’m in the clinic today... healed, and healing. Thank you so much for your support and encouragement these past few months. 🙏🏼

Now, I want to talk about hope.

Death and change are our constants, and both offer a path of hope. Grief—integrating loss, being with longing, loving, and letting go—stretches our capacity. It can’t be rushed, but it can be tended to.

I grew up in a hospice of sorts. My childhood was filled with love, but also with loss—my Grandad, my father, my Gran. Years of witnessing illness and death shaped me. And through it all, my family lived by a simple truth:
​You only get this day once. This moment will never come again. Be grateful. Cherish it. Know it will pass.

This isn’t to dismiss the pain. It’s about anchoring into life while we still have it to find resource in the impossible. Even in dying, life pulses through us. When grief integrates, we don’t lose hope—we generate it.

Hopelessness is real, inevitable, tender. Still, we must work to cultivate hope, for this is what fuels harmony and generates the world, the one we have now, had yesterday and will have tomorrow.

We are not dead yet. And in being fully alive, hope thrives.

This is a time to assess what’s out of harmony, to tend to what needs care, and to restore balance—in ourselves, our communities, and the world.

Below are links to the Winter blog, Qi flow exercises for grief, and a summons. May you find that grief, when tended to, makes space for hope. That in loosening your grip, something steady holds you. That in honoring loss, life roots deeper—into those deep roots that make us strong.

With warmth,
Lamia

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