Where home meets soul, and endings become doorways
We live in a world that doesn't make space for grief. So we compartmentalize. We push through. And the emotions that need to move get trapped — in our bodies, our homes, our lives. I offer containers where grief can finally breathe, even as you tend to what daily life requires.
"My time with Maia offered me an outlet beyond my family. She was there simply for me. She helped guide me back to myself and helped me find strength, courage and the space to be exactly who I needed to be. There was never an agenda. There wasn't any judgement, only pure compassion."
— Bobbi Sarai
"When my sister passed away suddenly in the fall of 2025, my world shattered.
In the midst of this heartbreak, I reached out to Maia. She helped guide me back to myself and helped me find strength, courage and the space to be exactly who I needed to be.
There was never an agenda. There wasn't any judgement, only pure compassion."
— Bobbi Sarai
This is not work we are meant to do alone.
Every room holds memory. Every object carries energy. The arrangement of your physical world both reflects and shapes your inner experience — and when life delivers a threshold moment, the relationship between you and your space becomes sacred ground.
The space where you live is not separate from the life you're living. Tend one, and the other responds.
Grief doesn't need a separate appointment. It moves through activity — clearing a room, walking in nature, tackling a task together. My work creates containers where emotions can surface and release while life continues.
Your home is the container for your life. When that container no longer matches who you're becoming — or when it's holding the weight of what's happened — the space itself needs tending.
This isn't interior decorating. It's a conversation between you and your environment — creating space for who you're becoming.
When someone you love has died, their belongings hold their story. Clearing a home is not getting rid of things — it's accompanying objects into their next chapter, honoring what they carry.
I walk alongside you through this process — helping you sort, decide, grieve, and release at your own pace. We use pause boxes for items you're not ready to face, photograph what you can't keep, and find meaning in what you let go.
When you're ready for physical removal, I can help coordinate that with care — so you get continuity rather than being handed off.
The thing that weighs on your mind but that the heaviness in your body won't let you complete. The paperwork. The phone call. The closet that needs emptying.
I hold space, lend my hands, and stay present with you while we get the necessary things done — together.
Sometimes what we need isn't advice. It's someone beside us while we do the hard thing.
Grief lives in the body. When we move, it moves. This offering takes us out of four walls and into the elements — walking together in nature while creating space for what needs to surface.
Part ritual, part conversation, part simply being in motion. The land holds what we bring to it.
For those who need to move to feel. For those whose grief has gotten stuck. For those who find walls confining and need sky.
We have lost the rituals that once held us through life's thresholds. Without ceremony, transitions happen to us rather than through us — unmarked, unwitnessed, incomplete.
I help you create rituals that fit your life: small daily practices to tend grief, family rituals to honor what's been lost, and group rituals for collective grieving.
Ritual doesn't have to be elaborate. It needs to be real, repeatable, and yours.
All services are personalized. We begin with a conversation to determine what serves you best.
Free
20 minutes to meet, share what's bringing you to this work, and sense whether we're a good fit.
$150
Grief Walk, Ritual Design, or Space Tending consultation. In person or virtual where applicable.
$400 half day
Present, hands-on support to help you complete what feels impossible alone. Sliding scale available.
Custom
Space Tending and Clearing Belongings. Scoped to what you need.
Sliding scale available. No one will be refused for financial reasons.
I've spent my life learning how to navigate thresholds — and how to help others do the same.
I've walked this path myself — through losses that broke me open and remade me. This work isn't theoretical for me. I know what it is to carry weight that seems impossible, to need someone simply present while life keeps demanding.
For over a decade, I ran a holistic home care practice grounded in Feng Shui, aromatherapy, and energy clearing — learning firsthand how physical space holds and shapes our inner life. I have served as a hospice volunteer, sitting with the dying and their families. And I am a lifelong student of ancestral practices that understood grief as something to be moved through the body, not managed by the mind alone.
I believe we can tend to grief without removing ourselves from life. The dishes, the clearing, the walk outside — these become the container. The alchemy happens in the doing.
Sometimes just naming what you're carrying is the first step.
maia@maiagibb.com
604-780-8771
North Vancouver, BC · Serving Vancouver, West Vancouver, Burnaby & all BC · In person & virtual sessions