What Grief Reminds Us

Let the reasons we grieve be portals of awakening. Let us sit with our grief, until it changes us. Let grief remind us that underneath our conditioned numbness is a capable heart.

When we tap into collective grief we’re tapping into something that we’ve been conditioned to disengage from. When we tap into the grief that stems from how disconnected we’ve become from the Earth, we’re tapping into something we’re taught doesn’t exist. But don’t you feel it? We are grieving what we’ve been taught to forget but what our bodies have always remembered. We are the Earth. To disengage from the Earth is to disengage from ourselves and that is not something that the heart does lightly.

Grief is often associated with overwhelm. As if to feel one grief, means to feel it all. But we can be relational with our grief. We can learn to give our grief what it needs and to hear what it has come to tell us about the state of things. We can show up for our grief mindfully, and we can show up for ourselves so that we can hold grief from a place of embodiment.

Grounding ourselves, opening our hearts, and greeting the world is exactly what we are being asked to do. It is the subtle revolution of our time.

But if you come to find me

When I am standing in my grief

And if my grief moves you

To discover where yours lives

Do not bring me words of comfort

Do not bring me your concerns

Do not bring me pause or promise

Bring me nothing short of a hear that is ready

To feel

A heart that is ready

To love

A heart that is ready

To fight