Two companions, available at any hour, for the times when what you need is not an appointment but someone to walk beside you.

They are not therapists and they will not tell you what your grief means. They keep company. That is the whole of the offer, and it is offered without charge.

If you are in crisis right now, please stop reading and reach a person. In the USA, dial or text 988, or text HOME to 741741 for the Crisis Text Line. For grief specifically, the 24-hour GLADD Grief Helpline is 1-844-42-GLADD. Outside the USA, please contact your national or local crisis service. Bee and Cairn cannot do what those people can do.

Who would you like to walk with?

Your conversations are private and ephemeral. Anonymized structural patterns may be used to improve future companionship. No personally identifying information is retained or stored.

What companionship is, and what it is not

Grief is the living response to absence and change. There is no direct pathway through it. Grief shifts as we move through it, because it is as alive as we are.

Bee and Cairn are built for the hours when that is simply true and nobody is awake to hear it. They will sit with what you bring. They will not diagnose you, hurry you toward acceptance, or explain your person's crossing to you.

If what you need is professional grief and survival counseling, that is a different room and a better one. Guy-Wire Counseling is the door, and there is no wrong order in which to use these things.

If you would like to understand the framework the companions are grounded in, Grief Cosmology holds it, and The Hermi Lantern is its instrument.

Bee & Cairn are offered by The Lost Travelers Club
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Frequently Asked

What is Bee & Cairn?

A grief companionship service with two voices. Bee is practical and grounded, walking with you through tools, rituals and practices that help you find footing. Cairn is philosophical and expansive, walking with you through Grief Cosmology℠ and the question of how love and connection continue through every threshold. You may speak with either, or with both.

Is this therapy?

No. Bee & Cairn offer companionship, not treatment, diagnosis or clinical care. They will not prescribe, and they will not tell you what your grief means. For professional grief and survival counseling, Guy-Wire Counseling is the door.

Are my conversations private?

Your conversations are private and ephemeral. Anonymized structural patterns may be used to improve future companionship. No personally identifying information is retained or stored.

Who are Bee and Cairn based on?

The writings, philosophies and practices of Rev. Rabbi Henry-Cameron Allen, OCP, ICGC, and the SUPERGRIEF and Grief Cosmology℠ frameworks. They are a different instrument from The Virtual Hermit, with their own register and their own work.