Mending Our Souls 

with Emma Marie Mock

• exploring the magic of working with textiles in the context of loss 

the way people engage, create, and memorialize with textiles is beautifully symmetrical to the ways people express love and care for the most important aspects of their life


My article

Mending Our Souls: The Role of Textiles in Death, Loss, and Navigating Grief

was published in OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying December of 2025

Read it here!

https://doi.org/10.1177/00302228251405635

• how are textiles a part of your narrative? •

• Have you sewn something out of sorrow? •

• How is something you have made or wear a reflection or expression of who you are? •

• How do the textiles around you define a part of your life? •

• Does a piece of fabric or clothing keep you close to someone you have lost? •

Tell Me Your Story Here