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𝑾𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒈𝒐𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒏 𝒉𝒐𝒘 𝒕𝒐 𝒈𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒗𝒆. In order to return again and again to our fullest joy, aliveness, connection with each other and love for life, we must have a space, and the SKILLS to express and process our emotions. One of the things that people almost always ask me is how to safely grieve without being swallowed by our strong emotions. We aren't taught these skills in school, and most of us aren't taught them in our families of origin. So trying to do this alone is like walking out into the forest by ourselves for the first time without any knowledge of the terrain and lacking basic survival tools. 🌳🌳🌳 🖤 So, too, it is with the dark woods of grief. 🖤 Tools include community, connection, and finding our common humanity in a group of people committed to this work. These are all critical sources of nourishment. They help sustain us on our journey. Then there's the question of approaching our grief. 🐾🐾 We need to be able to assess the dosage needed - and to know when it's too much. Most of us aren't taught how to tell the difference between emotion moving in a good way vs. being thrown around in the washing machine of sorrow and trauma in a way that can actually cause further harm. We desperately need the somatic (body-based) skills to be able to slow it down, ground and come back to our center and a place of nourishment and rest when things get to be too much. We need to know how to build that container - so we can step into the wildness of our grief, and then step out again. It's kind of like knowing how to build a shelter from the storm. ♥️​​​​​​​​​✍️ 𝐎𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐚 𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐡, 𝐈 𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚 𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐚 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐡 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐣𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐠𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐟. 🌲🌲🌲​​​​​​​​​ Want consistent support for connecting to your own personal practice of grief & gratitude in your inbox? This is one of the best (free!) ways to build connection, and I'd love to be there for you. Start here 👉 https://darkwoodsofgrief.com/dark-woods-of-grief-letter/ ---- 👋 I'm Josea, a Registered Therapeutic Counsellor who has been facilitating grief & process-based healing work in community for over 20 years.