“Have you eaten yet?”
5 week Grief group for navigating parental loss through food and culture.
5 Week supportive grief group for people anticipating or navigating parental loss. Join Roshni Kavate and Tida Beattie to explore in community, to honor the loss of your parents, grandparents, parental figures through the shared language of comfort foods and culture.
When we call our parents, the first thing we hear is not “hello! how are you?” But, if “Have you eaten yet? Are you eating enough? What did you have for breakfast? What will you cook for dinner?” Food is our love language, it’s how we convey our love and our worries. So what happens when we lose a parent or we are worried about future loss? How do we walk this new path of feeling untethered?
How do we grieve the loss of our parents? How do we find comfort and navigate this period of grief? How will we remember our culture and traditions when our links to our past are no longer here. How will we honor the stories of struggle and celebrate and cultivate joy? How will we enjoy our comfort foods again?
Join us for 5 weeks as we collectively navigate this deep loss through our shared love of food, culture, tradition, and ritual. We will also learn more about the language of grief and find new ways of integrating the wisdom of grief into our lives.
This is for anyone who has experienced parental loss or if you are feeling anxious about the future and wondering how you can navigate this period with more support, care and comfort.
Week 1: Your personal comfort tools, pleasure and cultural rituals. Food and Family connections.
Week 2: Recovering your family’s wisdom, Reclaiming culture and healing loss.
Week 3: Anticipatory grief, Somatics of grief, Body- Mind Connection
Week 4: Memory making, Recovering our voice and Regenerating our stories.
Week 5: Dinner party to share our family recipes for healing, rituals of grieving, integrating.
The details: 5 Wednesdays, starting Jan 19, 2022- Feb 16, 11 am - 12:30 pm PST by Zoom, $275
About your hosts:
Roshni Kavate is the Founder and Creative Director of Cardamom and Kavate, a wellness platform dedicated to reclaiming nourishing practices rooted in ancestral wisdom for collective liberation. She believes grief is a portal to wholeness. Through rituals and storytelling, we can reconnect to our origins and be our wild selves. She sees the path to being whole as a radical art and political practice. Roshni's early childhood was marked by the grief her mother and ancestors experienced by living on the margins based on gender and caste. As a Palliative Care Nurse in the US, Roshni witnessed racialized trauma and its lasting impact on the health and wellness of communities of color. Combining her interest in art, wellness and advocacy she has launched a startup, Cardamom and Kavate to reimagine what it means to rebirth ourselves, embody our freedom and live in our pleasure.
Tida Beattie is the founder of Meso Community, she is a 1st generation Thai-American eldercare consultant and end of life doula. Meso supports immigrants and the next generation to reorient their center, reframing awareness at the intersection of heritage, wellness, death and grief in the pursuit of whole living and peaceful dying. They provide culturally intelligent community education and planning services that addresses the arc of a life. Meso is inspired by our parents' experiences as immigrants in America. We mirror their influences as the next generation and seek to explore the new multicultural identities we have forged. Immigrants dream the biggest dream. We are here to reimagine how immigrants and their next generations experience life, reclaiming their resilience, fortitude, perseverance, strength, courage, and dignity.