Framework
The Re-Membering Process™
The Re-Membering Process™ is a nine-movement grief and wellness framework created by Rev. Dr. Jamie Eaddy. It offers individuals and communities a way to attend to grief with honesty, imagination, spiritual depth, and care.
Grief can affect how we understand ourselves, our relationships, our bodies, our faith, and our place in the world. The Re-Membering Process™ creates room to recognize what has been lost, recover what has been silenced or scattered, and imagine how life may be lived from here.
The process does not prescribe a fixed order or timeline. People may return to a movement, remain with it, or encounter several movements at once.
The Nine Movements
Recognition
Naming the loss, change, rupture, or grief that requires our attention.
Reflection
Listening to what grief reveals about our experiences, needs, relationships, and beliefs.
Reconnection
Reconnecting with the body, community, culture, spirit, memory, and sources of care.
Rewind
Returning to stories and experiences that may need to be reconsidered, understood differently, or witnessed more fully.
Relief
Creating space for rest, support, pleasure, tenderness, and release from the demand to carry everything alone.
Release
Loosening our relationship with what can no longer hold, serve, or sustain us.
Rediscovery
Encountering parts of ourselves, our histories, and our desires that grief may have obscured.
Re-Imagining
Cultivating the imagination necessary to envision new possibilities, relationships, practices, and ways of living.
Ritual
Giving grief form through meaningful practices that help individuals and communities remember, honor, express, and transform their relationship with loss.
Grief Counseling and Wellness Services
The Re-Membering Process™ supports grief counseling and wellness services, including personal assessments, personalized routines, maintenance schedules, counseling for the mind, and grief-support programs for individuals and communities.
This work attends to grief's emotional, spiritual, relational, cultural, embodied, and systemic dimensions. Particular care is given to losses that are often minimized, misunderstood, or left unsupported.
Programs and services may include:
- Individual and communal grief support
- Grief counseling and spiritual care
- Personal grief and wellness assessments
- Personalized practices and wellness routines
- Ongoing plans for care and support
- Facilitated reflection and meaning-making
- Ritual and embodied practices
- Educational programs and facilitator training
- Support for congregations, organizations, and communities navigating loss and transition
Who This Work Serves
The Re-Membering Process™ may be used with individuals, community groups, congregations, educators, caregivers, clinicians, grief-support professionals, and organizations seeking culturally responsive and grief-informed practices.
The Re-Membering Process™ was created by Rev. Dr. Jamie Eaddy. All rights reserved.