Grisha’s Circle Songs for Kinship Tending: You Belong!

Pacific Northwest Songleader and Kinship Tender: Pocket Songs for Joy and Healing

I catch mostly Pocket Songs (short, portable melodies) for community care, self care, relational skills, grief, and belonging.

Each song carries a bit of magic to lift spirits or loosen what’s stuck, written with trauma-informed care.

I love leading songs woven into workshops. I’ve been especially enjoying Stellar Village folk school, where we practice the skills of community, mostly online and at festivals.

My muse and husband, Tom, pictured here, helps these songs come through—his deep listening, guitar magic, and love are woven in every note.

You can download my Circle Songbook or view it below the songs. It has the words for many (but not all) of the songs) and some songs not provided in recorded format. I also have an album you can stream with some of my singer-songwriter songs. It’s called My Life is a Metaphor for My life.

You’re welcome to share these songs in circles (please credit Grisha Stewart and any co-writers). Add your own harmonies! Rights are reserved for any commercial recordings.

To book a song circle, kinship tending workshop, or request that I add another recording or fix something, please use my Contact Form and select Songleading or you can use the form on StellarVillage.com.

Ancestors Remind Me (2024)

Ancestors & Future Ones (2024)

Apology Song (2024) [Thank you for letting me know my words landed in an owie place]

Arms Open Wide (2021)

Awkward has Time to Turn to Tender When We Slow Down (2024)

Being Being Guided (with harmony) (2023)

Circle of Trees (2023)

Day By Day, Drop By Drop (2022)

Dream Big Enough for All of Us (2024)

Home Wherever I Go (2021)

I am Nature (2025)

I Give Myself Permission (2023)

It’s OK to Teach Me (with Tom Clark, 2021)

Learning to Love (2024)

Let Go of That Empire Stuff (2025)

Lettin That FOMO Go (with Tom Clark, 2024)

Love is a River (2020)

Light Illuminates Our Way (with Tom Clark, 2021)

May I Be Free of Enmity (2022)

Now In This Moment (pause to breathe between reps) (2024)

On to Something Big (2023) – as a round

Say Hello (2023) – zipper song

Tending to Belonging (2025) – zipper song

Thanks Mom (Mother’s Day Song, 2024)

Turn to Love (2021)

Water Flows Through Stone (2024)

We Gather Together (Grisha Stewart, 2024)

Full version with 3 parts

Welcome Song (2023)

We Share This Planet (2023)

Wind In the Leaves (with Tom Clark, 2022)

Woven (We are Interconnected – Stellar Village folk school theme song) (2024)

You Belong (2022)

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