Facing Impossible Grief and Embracing the Unraveling
You'll find the endpoint if you feel your contractive emotions all the way through—productively and without stories.
In this episode, I'm talking about how hard it is to deal with grief and cope with really tough losses that are difficult to understand.
We all go through some level of sadness and loss, but then there are those major losses that completely shake up our lives and alter who we are at our core.
In this week’s podcast conversation, we'll explore how to handle these overwhelming emotions by leaning into surrender and learning to let ourselves be taken over by them, as impossible as that sounds (and feels!) Even people who’ve done a ton of challenging healing work struggle with the idea of letting go and accepting the difficulty of grief because it feels like you might just—poof!—disappear if you do. If you're going through a tough time with loss and grief, this episode is for you.
“This is what feels so impossible to us because we cannot comprehend or understand the loss. It does not make sense to us. Even if we can intellectually understand what happened, our body has to go through its process, which is confusing and hard. But you will find the endpoint if you feel your contractive emotions all the way through, productively and without story or interpretation. And at that endpoint, there might be peace. There will definitely be a sense of calm. You will feel tired and worn out by what you just went through, but you have moved it out of your body. You have begun to heal.”
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Resources from this episode:
Access our potent Journey Mapping™ program to get support with navigating the aftermath of grief and loss.
Read my memoir, Unravel: Rising Up and Coming Back from a Season That Damn Near Killed Me, to hear my story of healing from loss.
Grab a copy of our book, Awesome Life Tips®: 365 Tips for The Dark Night of the Soul, for daily support with challenging chapters.
Listen to the Tales from the Journey Podcast™ to hear other stories of rising up and coming back from big losses.
Grab our actionable free workbooks on making the impossible inevitable and navigating the Terror Barrier here.