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The Healing Tree

Wed, Mar 18

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The Atlanta Grief House at Legacy Park

A grief-centered witnessing space for survivors of domestic and sexual violence. Led by Root.

The Healing Tree
The Healing Tree

When & Where

Mar 18, 2026, 7:00 PM – 8:45 PM

The Atlanta Grief House at Legacy Park, 500 S Columbia Dr, Decatur, GA 30030, USA

What

Trees exist in many forms. Some are tall and expansive, others bent and weathered. They endure storms, droughts, and seasons of loss. What has always moved me most is not only what trees show above ground, but what happens beneath the soil. Their roots connect. They communicate. They share resources. They survive together.


The Healing Tree is built from that understanding.


This is a grief spill for survivors of domestic and sexual Violence. It is not replacement for therapy. It is a space to come as you are, to be witnessed without interruption, fixing, or expectation. A space to be held through presence rather than answers.


Like trees in a forest, we are more powerful together. Witnessing one another becomes a form of care, a way of remembering that we do not have to heal in silence.


All expressions are welcome here: words, tears, silence, anger, numbness, breath. There is…


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All grief is welcome here.

All are welcome here.

This is an LGBTQ+ and BIPOC-affirming place.

The Grief House is not a replacement for skilled mental health care. We cannot provide acute crisis intervention. If you’re struggling to find the help you need, we are happy to offer referrals and suggest resources. If you feel like you might hurt yourself or someone else, help is available 24 hours a day from the National Suicide Hotline (1-800-273-8255) or by dialing or texting 988. If you are having a medical emergency, please dial 911.

Finding Us

Our spaces are open for gatherings & designated open house hours. 

The Atlanta Grief House Nickerson Cottage at Legacy Park Decatur 500 S. Columbia Dr, Decatur, GA 30030 Notes on finding us: GPS will take you to the center of Legacy Park. The Nickerson Cottage is a stone building with raised bed gardens on the south side of Legacy Park's campus. If you enter campus through the south entrance it will be the first cottage you come to. You can park in any of the surrounding lots. If coming in the evening you will see the string lights on our front porch. Nickerson Cottage is largely wheelchair accessible.

The Portland Grief House 7906 N Fessenden St, Portland, OR 97203 Notes on finding us: We are the green house on the corner of N Fessenden & N Allegheny Ave. Enter through the gate at the corner.

Wilderings, operating as The Grief House, is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization (EIN  84-4336786) and all donations are tax deductible. 

The Grief House works on and serves communities on land that is the unceeded territory of the Muskogee, Cherokee and Creek peoples in Georgia and the Clackamas, Stl’pulmsh, Cayuse, Umatilla, Walla Walla and Siletz peoples in Oregon.

 

We honor them as we live, work and serve grievers on these unceeded lands. 

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