A Ritual to Help Move Your Grief
Rituals are a powerful healing tool for shifting the energetic pattern in a situation or in a space. A ritual can help you move that energy of grief so it doesn’t get bogged up inside you.
The Problem with Being Hopeful
We don’t want to “give up hope,” but if a diagnosis is terminal, what exactly is it we’re hoping for? Miracle recoveries happen, it’s true, but they’re rare.
How Long Should Your Grief Last?
Everyone’s journey is completely unique. You will move at your pace. It won’t look like other people’s pace, and it’s important not to try and be somewhere you’re not.
Choosing a Meaningful urn
An urn is a ritual object, and the more the rituals around a death reflect the person who’s died, the more meaningful, and the more soul-healing those rituals are.
Rituals Help Us Contain Our Grief
Grief is an energy, and it has a watery-ness to it. We know the feeling of overwhelming grief; it can feel like being flooded, we get more than we can handle, we drown in it.
It’s OK to be Angry Around a Death
Anger around a death is natural, and it’s powerful to allow anger into a grieving space, and to learn tools for moving it, and skills for meeting it effectively.
Grief is an Expression of Love
“I’m doing really well!” “I’m staying strong.” “I’m staying positive.” is often code for, “I’m not letting myself be sad. I’m not crying, I’m not allowing myself to grieve.”
Healing Does Not Require Curing
We are not our bodies. We’re our souls. Our souls live in our bodies. Our souls can experience healing whether we’re in our bodies or not.
What the Purpose of Death?
Perhaps one of the purposes of death is that it helps us release love. Big loss and big grief show us how much we really love each other.