The future of Nashville Grief

21 January 2026

To my Nashville community:

These past two years (and counting) have been such a gift! Nashville Grief began with a hunch—and with moral support from folks who trusted that hunch—that creating a grief support group exclusively for members of the LGBTQIA+ community was a worthy proposition and that opening up such a group to folks experiencing both living losses and death-related losses would not be a complete and utter train wreck.

I had no way of fully envisioning the impact this work would have on our community and on each person whose grief was held in a community of tenderness and trust, often for the first time. To each person whose grief was understood, often for the first time. To each person who did not need to hide or diminish parts of themselves in order to be seen and embraced, often for the first time.

This work has been humbling and awe-inspiring.

And, yet, it was never my intention to be the sole facilitator of such care and community. In fact, in crafting each and every paper and project and proposal that informed this work, my broader purpose was always threefold: one, to demonstrate the need for such work; two, to model how the work might be done; and three, to inspire and train others to carry on the work.

I have done the first two. It’s time to fully embark upon the third.

To that end, I will be phasing out my own group facilitation (i.e. taking an indefinite pause from starting new groups of my own and wrapping up my current group) to focus on equipping more of our community members to be peer group facilitators. My hope is that in doing so, I will increase our community’s accessibility to support beyond what I could ever offer on my own—especially during these nightmarish times.

More information on training opportunities coming soon. In the meantime, I send you each much love and the deepest well of gratitude for your continued support.

In peace,

Krista