The Soft Power of Grief
Grief work is the work of our times.
Not only for our own aliveness and healing, but as sacred activism for a world that needs all of our effort in changing.
Grief is not a problem to be solved.
It is not a phase to move through or a wound to be healed. It is a sacred, necessary response to love and loss and it is one of the most honest things we will ever feel.
We live in a world that avoids grief, pathologizes emotional pain, and has largely forgotten how to honor the thresholds of life. And yet beneath our anxiety, our numbness, our disconnection, grief is often what is waiting.
Unmet grief is not benign…