This chapter examines the impact of collective grief during a year of widespread losses, including a pandemic and social injustices. It emphasizes the necessity of acknowledging grief and developing healthy coping mechanisms, highlighting the importance of solidarity and community support. The discussion explores personal journeys through grief, illustrating how facing pain can lead to deeper self-awareness and a transformative approach to emotional health.
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Episode 039 – You Need an Architecture of Grief (Interview with James Prescott)
Twenty Twenty seems to be the car wreck that just keeps going, and the result is that many of us are experiencing more and more pain and grief. How are we to deal with this? Writer James Prescott and I discuss the ways we structure our lives for either avoiding or entering into and processing our grief. You’ve got to do it!
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We all have an “architecture” to our lives. This is the structure of our lives that makes living our lives the way that we do easiest for us. Much of this structure is inherited and unconscious.
Most of us live with an unconscious architecture that protects us from experiencing our grief. We hide from pain, and try to live our lives in such a way that the pain isn’t visible.
For a healthy life, where we grow personally and spiritually, we need an architecture of grief, structures in our life that enable us to experience and process our grief without being controlled by it.
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