Heather Honold

Living Outline

The Living Outline helps you plan through reflection, not fear. Practical questions. Gentle prompts. Clarity with soul.  Learn More ⬇️

The hardest part of grief isn't the beginning. It's realizing it never really ends.
#griefnotes

There's a difference between being alone and being abandoned. Today, remind your nervous system that solitude is not punishment, it's a sacred threshold. #lovenotes

Choose one meaningful object. Place it where you can see it. Sit, breathe, remember. That’s a ritual too.

Grief isn't linear. It's a spiral staircase that leads back to the same floor, but you're never thhe same person.
#griefnotes

The Mercy of Choice Mercy is not escape. It is a way of honoring a life to the very end, choosing tenderness, conversation, and a goodbye shaped with care. This piece reflects on Medical Aid in Dying as one form of digni...

Medical Aid in Dying is not about giving up. It is about letting a life end with dignity, intimacy, and choice. I wrote about what mercy looks like in practice — and who our laws leave behind.

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You don't need to be blooming to be worthy of tending. Wilted, quiet, hiding under the covers, your roots are still speaking. Listen to them today. #lovenotes

Grief turns time into a loop. One sound, one scent, and you’re back inside a memory that still breathes.

Losing someone rewrites your life in invisible ink. You're always rereading pages no one else can see.
#griefnotes

The ache you feel might not need fixing. It might just need witnessing. There is wisdom in staying. Even here. Even now. Especially now. #lovenotes

A FREE 5-DAY INVITATION TO REST, REMEMBER, AND BREATH AGAIN.

Rest isn’t laziness — it’s remembering. Return to Stillness is a 5-day ritual journey to help you soften your edges and breathe again. No hustle. Just small sacred pauses. Join me 👇

Hospice means choosing comfort, presence, and connection. Palliative care supports both life and dignity. Let’s talk about it.

Grief doesn't ask permission. It simply arrives and takes a seat beside you.
#griefnotes

Listening to the Quiet: Finding Meaning When the Noise Stops In a blackout, the world reveals a quieter intelligence. When the noise drops, another kind of knowing wakes up in the body. Read and try the simple practice for meeting silence without fear.

The power went out. I heard the body’s quiet intelligence again. New piece with a simple ritual for meeting silence without fear.

Listening to the Quiet: Finding Meaning When the Noise Stops

You're not too much. The world just isn't used to people who feel everything and still stay open. That's magic. That's resilience. Your sensitivity is like a compass. #lovenotes

Your body keeps the story even when you forget the plot. A headache or gut knot can be a message. Listen.

Some days, grief is loud. Other days, it's just the sound of your breath remembering.
#griefnotes

There's nothing wrong with needing more rest than usual. You're not lazy. You're a living system responding to overwhelm, heartbreak, and capitalism. Of course, you're tired. Rest like it's a protest. Because it is. #lovenotes

Legacy is the way your presence lingers in others. Every act of tenderness leaves a mark.

You don't move on from grief. You move with it, limping, dancing, crawling, but moving all the same.
#griefnotes

Some days, your courage looks like not answering the phone. Like letting things go unread, unsaid. Boundaries aren't walls. They're weatherproofing. #lovenotes

Grief is love with nowhere to go, so it lingers in our ribs and sings in our bones.
#griefnotes

When the Noise Fades: Grieving in the Quiet After When the meals stop and the world goes quiet, grief learns to live inside you. Here is how to meet the quiet with care, rhythm, and small ritual.

After loss, the world grows quiet. The body recalibrates. Time moves in tides. Here are small rituals to meet the stillness and begin to integrate grief. Read the full piece and, if it resonates, subscribe for weekly witnessing.

Día de los Muertos began as an Indigenous honoring of life and death, later blending with Catholic ritual. Today, it’s a time to welcome our dead with marigolds, candles, and memory. Grief becomes devotion.

Today, you are allowed to be unsteady. You don't have to make it make sense. You get to wake up and just exist. That's holy enough. Let softness be your rebellion. Let breathing be your ceremony. #lovenotes

Still Here: A Digital Grief Companion | Six-Week Grief Healing Journey A six-week digital grief companion to help you move through loss with reflection, ritual, and gentle weekly support.

Grief doesn’t disappear just because it’s Halloween. Still Here = rituals, journaling, and space to feel.

A FREE 5-DAY INVITATION TO REST, REMEMBER, AND BREATH AGAIN.

The world won’t hand you quiet; you have to claim it. Return to Stillness is a 5-day ritual-based email journey to help you slow down and remember what peace feels like inside your body. Join me ⬇️ 

Not every pain needs a silver lining. Some grief just needs space to breathe. #griefnotes

The Samhain Ritual Guidebook: A Sacred Companion for the Witches’ New Year

The veil is thin, and the ancestors are listening. My free Samhain Ritual Guidebook helps you honor them through silence, fire, and reflection.

This is the day when the veil things and the voice of those who came before can be felt again.  Speak to them. Listen. They've always been walking with you.