Welcome to Salt Trails

We’re so glad you’ve found your way here.

Though we’ve been around since 2021, we have not had a website until now — so please allow us to introduce ourselves. We are the Salt Trails Collective. Salt Trails is more than a collective of therapists, educators, spiritual leaders, and care workers — it’s a home for people navigating life’s hardest passages. We are grief companions, story gatherers, body listeners, and trail makers. Whether you are deep in mourning, sitting at the edge of a major life change, or simply trying to stay afloat in terrifyingly uncertain times, we’re here to offer community-based support that is tender, thoughtful, and real.

Why Salt Trails? Salt speaks to the deep mineral wisdom of the body: tears, sweat, the ocean, the sacred sting of healing. Trails remind us that grief and transformation are not linear—they move like winding paths, with pauses, returns, detours, and unexpected beauty.

Each member of our collective brings their own lived grief experiences, clinical skill, ancestral knowledge, and creative curiosity to this work. We have arrived on this path through hospice, death doula trainings, birth work, spiritual care, somatic practice, activism, academic endeavors, or mental health. What unites us throughout these experiences is a belief in the intelligence of your inner world and a commitment to walking beside grief without rushing or judging the process.

In this blog, we’ll share reflections on grief, healing, transitions, and joy. We’ll explore meaning-making practices, resources, personal stories, and offerings from our wider communities. You’ll also meet each of us more intimately, as we share what calls us to this work and how we care for ourselves in the midst of it. At minimum, you’ll find our current events and offerings. What else would you like to see here?

This space is for truth-telling, for slowness, for salt and sweetness both, for the long and winding trails we walk.

Thanks for being here.

With care and solidarity,
Salt Trails Collective