Author: Rebecca Hensler
Rebecca Hensler majored in political activism at Brown University and earned her master’s degree in Counseling at San Francisco State University. She works as a middle-school counselor in the Bay Area. Following the death of her infant son, Jude, in 2009, Hensler founded the online secular grief-support network Grief Beyond Belief.
Grief Beyond Belief
Caretaking, the most traditionally feminine of roles, was not the way I expected to enter a movement. I’ve been an activist my entire adult life. And yet, I find myself joining the uprising of unbelievers not as a firebrand or organizer but as founder of a community of comfort and compassion. Grief Beyond Belief (GBB) …