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“Healing is the capacity to hold pain”
~Mate
The Pilgrimage of Grief
Muse: to reflect, contemplate, to meditate in silence on some subject. "There are opportunities even in the most difficult moments."~MaathaiOne of the greatest opportunities we have in grief is to let our hearts be broken open by our pain rather than trying to...
Making Sense vs Making Meaning
Muse: to reflect, contemplate, to meditate in silence on some subject. "Start close in don't take the second step or the third, start with the first thing close in, the step you don't want to take. ~Whyte The first step toward our grief is the step we...
Grief does not change you. It reveals you.
Muse: to reflect, contemplate, to meditate in silence on some subject. "Things take the time they take." ~Oliver Nature takes its time. It doesn't rush or try to hurry things along. It lets things take all the time that they need. As summer turns to...
If you never learned to talk you would still feel your emotions.
Muse: to reflect, contemplate, to meditate in silence on some subject. "We've known the dark woods, but also the moon." ~ Simmons We may view our "darker" emotions as wrong. We may think there is something wrong with us for feeling them or we may just...
I wonder if the seed packed in the ground feels the dark soil is a form of hell before it blossoms into a flower.
Muse: to reflect, contemplate, to meditate in silence on some subject. "May we try not to skip over the moments in our lives that we don't like." ~Elijah No one likes to feel pain or suffer. These are usually the moments we try to skip over or try to...
I have never met a heavy heart that wasn’t a phone booth with a red cape inside.
Muse: to reflect, contemplate, to meditate in silence on some subject. "What if we never ‘get over’ certain deaths? What if the idea that we should have by now, or will, is a great palace lie? What if we’re not supposed to? What if it takes a life time…? ~...
Invisible wounds are the hardest to heal
Muse: to reflect, contemplate, to meditate in silence on some subject. "We spend so much time asking where our suffering comes from it leaves us little time to ask where it leads." ~ Boyle When we are trying to figure out where our suffering comes from we...
Healing VS. Curing
Muse: to reflect, contemplate, to meditate in silence on some subject. "Now. Here. This." ~Bell & Blackwell Now. To be with what we are feeling now, in this present moment. Here. To be here, right where we are, with our feelings. Not trying to escape...
Who’s Afraid of the Dark?
Muse: to reflect, contemplate, to meditate in silence on some subject. "Grief is the expression of healing in motion." ~Turner The word emotion (e-motion) means energy that wants to move. Grief is a very powerful physical experience and we must allow...