By Ami Isett
Grief, what a strong and complex word! It says so much and yet so specifically little all at the same time. We can feel grief around change of any kind, loss of life, relationships, roles, stages in life, autonomy, mobility, career, health, age and so many more topics.
Loss, sorrow, distress, heartache, mourning, sadness and impending gloom are just a few of the words that come up for me when I think about grief. I also feel the sensations in my body of a kind of slumping, pulling away from and an empty heaviness inside. What do you think, feel and sense when you are in a state of grief? Do you have or make the room to feel it or do you tuck it away?
For me, grief gets suspended in the air and hovers over everything. It devours the light and creates a kind of melancholy that masks or prohibits flow and the rhythm of my life. I live in a different space, it is often incredibly powerful and robs me of being present and available to life itself. Does this make it bad? Well, uncomfortable that’s for sure, but it also tells me what I value most in my life, what I appreciate, want and need in this lifetime.
We often feel so completely alone in our grief. My grief at the present may not be yours, but we have “it” in common, it’s inevitable, universal, something we all share! What if our grief can be shared, to better connect us to each other, to our humanness? What if this in itself can help us heal, learn about and process our grief even better?
In this upcoming workshop, “Making Space for Grief”, my colleague Andrea Pollak and I invite you to join us to discover more about making the space you need to acknowledge and feel your grief. What would it look like if you had more time, permission to feel and less constraints around your grief? Come explore more with like-minded people in a safe place, in relationship and in the community of SoULL.
We’ll help you make room for it in your mind, body and spirit for a deeper understanding of grief itself so that you can heal in your own time and space. Hope to see you there!
With love ~ Ami
“Making Space for Grief”
Sunday, November 14th at 11am to 2pm ET on Zoom
Please click this link to register.
https://jeanne-denney.squarespace.com/events/2021/11/14/making-space-for-grief
This workshop is presented by SoULL https://www.soullcommunity.com/
