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Honour your grief with Rising Wisdom
Origins
Rising Wisdom is a gentle, holistic, and humanistic space that is trauma-informed and LGBTQ+ inclusive, and invites anyone experiencing grief or loss to explore their emotions with tenderness and compassion.
Created from personal experience of trauma, grief, recovery, and post-traumatic growth, Rising Wisdom is the space that our founder Sophie Blackman-Smith wishes was available to her when she was navigating traumatic life experiences.
After many years of looking outwards to find a way out of her pain, Sophie learned that it is only by quietening the outside world and connecting with our inner self that we can truly start to heal.
When we turn our attention inwards, through meditation, therapy, grief tending, or in circle, we can connect with our innate rising wisdom - a wisdom, a truth, a knowing, that inherently knows how to guide us, and invites a deeper and more loving connection with our true self.
Grief tending
Whether you are grieving the death of a loved one, or navigating another significant loss such as miscarriage, the end of a relationship, divorce, job loss, the impact of world events, or the anticipatory grief of death; loss and grief impacts us all at some point in our lives in a multitude of different ways.
Grief can feel so deeply overwhelming and through grief tending Sophie offers a gentle container for your grief to be held and nurtured.
The process of grief tending encourages you to grieve without haste or judgement, so that you can wholeheartedly connect with your emotions and feelings, and process the changes that loss gives rise to.
As a certified Grief Coach, Sophie provides a knowledgeable and experienced hand of support as you navigate your journey into, through and beyond grief and loss.
Hypnotherapy
Hypnotherapy is a powerful therapeutic approach that works with the subconscious mind to navigate challenging emotions and life experiences. and can be particularly valuable in processing the complex feelings that accompany grief and loss.
Your hypnotherapy journey will begin with a Discovery Call, to explore if this is the right therapeutic modality for you. You will then be invited to complete a Consultation Form to share more about your therapeutic needs before attending an Initial Consultation appointment where we will collaboratively create a treatment plan that tailors the hypnotherapy to your specific and unique needs.
At your therapeutic appointments, when you are ready and always with your consent you’ll be gently guided into a relaxed, hypnotic state, similar to a guided meditation. Under hypnosis carefully chosen suggestions are offered to support emotional healing and positive behavioural change.
Sophie is a qualified hypnotherapist and a registrant member of the National Hypnotherapy Society. She provides hypnotherapy to support individuals dealing with grief, as well as for a variety of other concerns.
Circle
In ancient times, communities would gather in a non-hierarchical circle to share their stories. Whoever held the ceremonial stick or stone, known as the ‘talking piece’, would have the freedom to share their story uninterrupted.
They would not be offered any advice or guidance; simply given a platform to have their voice heard. This sacred art of circle allows us to be witnessed in our word, and as a result we can feel truly heard and gently held in our vulnerability.
Through our storytelling we find connection with one another, foster a sense of community, and connect with our rising wisdom.
Grief circles are for people who are experiencing or living with grief, offering a tender place to share our experiences of grief and loss without judgement. We also offers circles for women and non-binary people, and Rainbow circles for people in the LGBTQ+ community.
As an advanced circle facilitator Sophie provides both in-person and online circles, and for those seeking a deeper experience circle journeys are available that take place over several weeks or months.
Meditation
In a world that is so busy and constantly connected, regular meditation practice may feel like an unachievable goal.
However, finding ways to integrate this practice into your life can be hugely beneficial as meditation gently slows the frequency of our brainwaves, resulting in calmness and clarity,
Starting small with just a few minutes a day and slowly building up to a routine practice can help integrate meditation into your life. and before too long these moments of pause become completely unmissable.
Having practiced meditation for two decades, this practice has been an instrumental part of Sophie's post-traumatic growth and something she shares with deep respect for the cultures from where it originates.
Sophie offers group online meditation courses and drop-in sessions, and leans on principles from Zen, Buddhist, and Sufi meditation.