Featured Author
Tara Rynders
Biography
Tara “The Dancing Nurse” Rynders, RN, MFA, BSN, BA, is a nurse, dancer and an advanced grief recovery specialist. She offers arts-based grief recovery, workshops and coaching to help others rediscover their brilliance and create brave spaces to process grief, build community and find joy in one another. She lives in Evergreen with her partner, Tim, her 10-year-old twins, Soren and Femka, and their pup, Haarlem.
ARTICLES
The Nest We Keep Building
One of my favorite movies is the 2005 movie “Crash.” It’s a tapestry of lives woven together, showing our deepest frailty and humanity as they intersect with one another. Humans trying to do their best with the programming they have, from the complicated ways they...
The Breakfast That Changed How I Show Up for Grief
It was raining that morning when I picked up Shannon for breakfast. She was dying from cancer at just 26, and I was determined to make every moment count. Shannon and I had met working for the Forest Service years earlier. We’d stayed close through our shared love of...
We Can Weep and Call It Singing
“We can weep and call it singing”—one of my favorite lines from the Iron & Wine song “Call It Dreaming.” What if this was it? A simple shift in how we experience our grief, our tears, our weeping? What if they’re not just tears but music notes, battle cries,...
