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The Grief Letters with Claire

Claire Brakel Packer

I help people meet their grief so that living alongside it feels possible and even beautiful.

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The Grief Letters with Claire: July 2026

Hello Dear Ones,

Welcome to the July 2026 issue of The Grief Letters with Claire. Thanks for being here.

This month marked 40 years on this good Earth for me. Read on to hear how I welcomed both grief and gratitude into a quiet but soulfu...

14 days ago
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Blessing What's Here: Helplessness

It’s not enough, this turning toward what’s here and blessing it anyway. But it’s not wasted, either. Perhaps all my little acts of not enough heaped all together will be enough in the end? I long to help weave a more gentle and generous we...

a month ago
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The Grief Letters with Claire: May/June 2026

Hello Dear Ones,

Welcome to the May/June 2026 issue of The Grief Letters with Claire. Thanks for being here.

In Ask Grief, we sit with sudden loss and the practices that help to tend to it. In Journal Prompts, you’re invited to be with yo...

2 months ago
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Blessing What's Here: A Heavy Heart

For today, a small blessing for heavy hearts. (This is a continuation of a practice, mostly held in my notebooks, that I began in December: of blessing what’s here. You can see where it began here and what came next here).

The first blooms...

3 months ago
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Blessed are the Grievers

A blessing for those holding grief on Mother’s Day. And a playlist for the mothering griefs we hold.

Me and my younger brother Matt circa 1995 or there abouts. It explains a lot to know I spent much of my childhood wandering wildflower fie...

3 months ago
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    (she/they) I want to talk about impossible pain, make art, and laugh. Writer, grief guide, and ritual weaver.

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