Our agreements
How we hold this space
read slowly, this part mattersThis is connection, not therapy
What happens here is real and healing, and it does not replace therapy or medical care. If you're in crisis, please use the support resources right away.
What's shared here, stays here
Members share tender things. Don't screenshot, repost, or retell someone's story outside this space. Ever.
Where Angela is active
Angela actively participates in the free Grief, Trauma & Your Mama community, the Mother Hunger® alumni community, and the Healing with Horses retreat circles. The loss-specific circles within the platform are peer-supported spaces where members hold each other through their particular grief. Angela monitors all spaces for safety but does not actively participate in the loss-specific circles. Use the Report link on any post and Angela will look at it.
We witness, we don't fix
Resist the urge to give advice unless someone asks for it. "I'm with you" lands softer than "you should." Every grief is real here; there is no hierarchy of loss.
Be gentle with each other, and with yourself
Come as you are. Take breaks. Read quietly for as long as you need before you ever say a word. No selling, no recruiting, no judgment of anyone's family, faith, or path through grief.
Sharing photos
Only share images you have the right to share. Photos of your loved ones are welcome and sacred here. Please don't post graphic, explicit, or violent images, or photos of other people who haven't agreed to be shared. If an image could be hard for someone to come upon unexpectedly, say so in your post.
Memorial pages
A memorial is a place for someone you are grieving. Make one only for people you've lost, with care and truth, not for living people or anyone whose memory isn't yours to keep. Treat every memorial here as you'd want your own person's to be treated. You can edit or remove one you created at any time.
If something feels wrong
Use the quiet Report link on any post, or email angela@angelaschellenberg.com. Angela reads every report. You are being looked after here.