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Healing is the capacity to hold pain”

~Mate 

The Pilgrimage of Grief

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

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.

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.

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...

Invisible wounds are the hardest to heal

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

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?

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...