ABOUT GRIEFIn the west, we’ve lost touch with grief. We don’t allow ourselves to feel it, we don’t give it the attention it needs, and often we don’t know how to support those in grief. We are missing a warm and compassionate village.Some of us may experience grief as a melancholy or numb feeling that permeates our lives when we’re not distracting ourselves or chasing the next high. Others may experience it as an intense tornado of emotion that only a few are let in on.In these often lonely experiences of grief, we miss something so important - we miss that grief is life force.Grief is vital energy moving us towards aliveness, integration, truth, wholeness, care and love with immense passion of heart.We miss that grief was never meant to be experienced alone.
This great longing we have to be held, supported, and witnessed in our grief is our birthright.Francis Weller on Grief:“There is something feral about grief, something essentially outside the ordained and sanctioned behaviors of our culture.
Because of that, grief is necessary to the vitality of the soul. Contrary to our fears, grief is suffused with life force. It is riddled with energy.An acknowledgment of the erotic coupling with another soul, whether human, animal, plant, or ecosystem. It is not a state of deadness or emotional flatness.
Grief is alive, wild, untamed. It cannot be domesticated. It resists the demands to remain passive and still.
We move in jangled, unsettled and riotous ways when grief takes hold of us. It is truly an emotion that rises from the soul.”