A Quiet Place for Grief
The Stillness Room is a quiet place where grievers can find solace,
inspiration and healing through writing, literature, poetry, conversation, music, art, nature, neuroscience and community.
Welcome to the Stillness Room
This is a quiet place where your grief is welcome, where you can come for solace, or inspiration,
for contemplation or healing.
For many of us grief can feel isolating. Whether you’re grieving the death of a loved one, the end of a relationship, declining health, the legacy of trauma, anguish for our world, the people you most need can often seem remote or unavailable. It can feel like there’s no-one to witness your suffering. You are not alone.
The Stillness Room is a place to rest your sorrow and find solace and healing through the words, music, art and conversation of those who travel alongside you.
Through prose, poetry, literature, conversation, music, art, nature and neuroscience, we’ll create a journey that allows you to honour your loss, reckon with it, heal and return to the world, transformed.
Stillness Writers Room
The Stillness Writers Room is a retreat and community of people who wish to put words to their grief. A place for all writers, non-writers to professional, to honour a grief—or loss—and transform it into beauty.
Community
Join our community at Substack, for regular posts and conversations that explore grief, loss, philosophy, literature, poetry, music, art and the pathways to healing and the search for meaning.
Grief Support
If you’re seeking personal support, you may wish to reach out to discuss how I might help you to work through your loss. I’m a certified peer-to-peer grief educator. Appointments (held on zoom) on request.
Join our community for comfort, inspiration and connection.
The Stillness Room community (via Substack) offers you a regular newsletter of my readings and reflections and heads-up on writing retreats and other community events.
Hi, I’m Robynne
And The Stillness Room is a space I’ve created to explore the nature of grief and what it is to be human.
It’s a search for meaning through philosophy, literature, poetry, writing, music, contemplation and connection. It’s a journey into the awe and beauty that lies at the heart of our suffering. It’s a space I’ve come to know well.
In 1985, when I was 19, my parents and brother died in a boating accident on the Mornington Peninsula near Melbourne, Australia. It is the experience around which the rest of my life revolves.
For many years I kept my grief buried and silent under social norms and desire to belong in a world that often seems intolerant of—or oblivious to—grief. I eventually learned to philosophise my loss and thought my grieving done.
Then, in my early 50s—a time of reckoning for many of us—my cultivated façade disintegrated to expose a untended grief that had lain curled in on itself for years. Now an adult, I had nowhere to go but into my pain. And this led to the writing of a book—Between Two Waves—that explores my story, together with many others’, and the nature of grief and healing.
I’ve since realised this was my life purpose—sharing what is most fragile and vulnerable and valuable in me, and in each of us.
I created The Stillness Room to welcome others into a safe space to explore their own stories. If this is your first time here, welcome. I hope you stay a while. And I hope you will join the conversation and find your own way through whatever it is that brings you here. I trust this offers you a place of solace, inspiration, meaning and healing.
I’m a certified grief educator, writer, public speaker and consultant. In my other life, I work with business leaders, delivering strategy and leadership retreats, advice and mentorship.
