Grief counseling with a practical application.

Edith Love works with you on what grief, loss, or estrangement has made impossible. The closet you cannot face. The box you have not opened in years. Phone calls and errands that have been waiting. Start with a free fifteen-minute introduction by phone — call or send a message to set a time.

In your home

Memphis area

On Zoom

Anywhere in N. America

Two hours

per session

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specific.

Most people come to Edith because of one of these situations. You may recognize yourself in more than one.

After a death

The clothes are still in the closet.

A husband. A wife. A parent. A child. A beloved pet. The shirts are still hanging. The toolbox is still in the garage. You have started a few times and stopped. You know what needs to happen. You cannot make eighty decisions about what someone used to wear, by yourself.

After a divorce or separation

The marriage ended. The objects did not.

Wedding gifts. Photographs. Furniture from a family that is no longer your family. You started a few drawers months ago and stopped. Edith does not have an opinion about the marriage. She works with you on what stays and what goes, in whatever order makes sense to you.

When family is estranged

The box has been on the shelf for years.

It came from a sibling, a parent, or an adult child you no longer speak to. You will not open it. You also will not throw it out without opening it. That is the loop. Edith does not ask you to explain the relationship. The work is about the box.

When the house has gotten away from you

You know what your home looks like.

You have been carrying that quietly for a long time. Nothing about working with Edith involves a camera, a family member, or anyone in your home without your invitation. You set the pace. You decide what stays. You can stop a session at any point.

The best of organizing and therapy.

Professional organizers work on systems. They can fold, label, and sort. They cannot move things you are not ready to let go of, because the block is not the system. The block is the feeling.

Therapists can help you understand why it is hard. They will not come to your house and open the box with you.

Edith does both, in the same session. She asks questions about a specific object, room, or decision. She works through the grief, loss, or unresolved feeling underneath. You decide what stays and what goes.

The clutter is the grief. Address the grief, and the clutter starts to move.

Two hours, in your home or on Zoom.

A session is a conversation with the objects in front of you. Sessions run two hours — enough to make real progress without overwhelming the room. Edith asks questions about a closet, a room, a box, or a decision. The grief or feeling underneath comes up. You decide, in real time, what stays and what goes. Most people get stuck because they let the decision wait. Edith does not let it wait.
Format One

In your home

$100

per hour

2 hrs

per session

Edith comes to your house. She works alongside you — taking clothes from the closet, opening the box, sorting items into keep, donate, or release piles. She can transport, donate, or dispose of items you decide to release. Memphis metro and farther by arrangement.

Format Two

On Zoom

$75

per hour

2 hrs

per session

Edith meets you over video. You hold the camera, and you decide what she sees and when. She talks you through each decision from your own home, on your own terms. Edith has worked this way with clients across North America.

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Portrait, in repose

Meet Edith Love.

Edith is an ordained minister who holds a Master of Divinity. She was ordained in the Unitarian Universalist tradition, which welcomes people of any faith or none. She has spent years sitting with people in grief.

She also understands this work from the inside out. Edith grew up in a family of people who held onto things — her mother, her grandmother, her father. Three generations. She has struggled with the pattern herself as an adult, and has done the work to move through it.

I know it from the inside out. I know how it feels to be overwhelmed and surrounded by stuff and not know what needs to happen or how to move forward.

— Edith

Two hours. One rate.

Every session runs two hours, billed by the hour. The format you choose determines the rate.
In your home

$100

per hour

Edith comes to you. She handles items when you want her to.
On Zoom

$75

per hour

You hold the camera. She talks you through it, room by room.
Sliding scale is available. If cost is the only thing keeping you from booking, say so when you call.

What people ask before they reach out.

How is this different from a professional organizer?

A professional organizer works on systems and logistics. They can fold, label, and arrange. They cannot move objects you are not ready to release, because the block is not the system. It is the feeling. Edith addresses the feeling, and the objects start to move. The result is a sorted closet. The method is a different kind of conversation.
No. Edith is an ordained Unitarian Universalist minister, and the Unitarian Universalist tradition welcomes people of any faith or none. The work does not require any particular belief and never asks about yours. Many of her clients hold no faith at all. The minister training shows up in how she handles the room, not in what she asks of you.
Yes. Edith has done this work for years and knows the pattern from the inside out. There are no cameras and no one walking through your home without your invitation. You set the pace. You make every decision about what stays and what goes. You can stop a session at any point.
You meet Edith on Zoom. You hold the camera, set up a tablet, or use your phone on a stand. She talks you through one decision at a time. Many clients use a two-device setup: a laptop or tablet for video so Edith can see, and a phone on audio so they can roam around the house. The format works. It has been tested with clients across North America.

Reach Edith.

The first conversation is a free fifteen-minute introduction by phone. Call directly, or send a message to set up a time to talk. No commitment to book a session, and you do not have to explain anything in advance.