In your book, you write about how sorrow can just tenderize our heart in a way that beautifully can eventually lead us to compassionate love in action. In the early months kind of just felt like I was walking around like in some strange like out of body experience,. And what was all this going to look like? So those early days were acutely hard as years went on and also less acutely hard for longer periods of time.
In this Episode, You'll Learn:
- How there are many different forms of grief
- Why we need to surrender to our grief and turn toward painful feelings
- How there are many painful emotions that exist under the "grief umbrella"
- The challenge of surrendering to grief in a culture that constantly pushes for happiness and avoidance of pain.
- How we can strengthen our ability to cope with grief by continuing to allow it in
- The importance of finding emotional support when grieving
- Why animals provide the best emotional support
- How providing emotional support to someone grieving includes just being with them and holding space for their grief
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