Pulling The Thread with Elise Loehnen There Are Two Moves When Faced with Uncertainty (Francis Weller)
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Aug 21, 2025 
Francis Weller, a psychotherapist and author celebrated for his insights on grief, discusses the profound wisdom that can emerge from embracing sorrow. He emphasizes the importance of processing grief in community rather than isolation, drawing contrasts between Indigenous and Western practices. Weller invites listeners to navigate uncertainty through imagination and connection, viewing grief as a transformative force. He highlights the idea of 'medicine' in community and nature, encouraging a deeper understanding of emotional resilience to combat numbness.
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Bring Grief Into Community
- Come out of isolation and share grief in communal contexts to keep the psyche moving.
- Keep grief warm with care, art, and ritual so it can stay soft and become what it needs to become.
Grief As Movement Not Fixing
- Grief isn't about fixing outcomes; it's about holding a deeper ground and reverence for what is lost.
- Ritual and communal warmth signal to the psyche that it has what it needs to keep moving.
Individualism Broke Grief Rituals
- Western individualism removed communal holding and made facing grief overwhelmingly isolating.
- The absence of communal grief rituals leads to cultural anesthesia and grief-phobia.
