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Grieving Awake: Embodied Grief, Part Two

6/24/2022

Black and white photo of a young man looking into the camera with a subtle sadness. This illustrates what grief feels like in the body. Sacred Circle Holistic Healing offers online grief counseling in Kansas for adults.

This is the continuation of the original blog, Grieving Awake: Embodied Grief, Part 1

Turning Toward Grief

What does it look like to drop into our grief? What does it look like to allow ourselves to grieve in a fully embodied way?

Grieving Awake: Embodied Grief, Part 1

6/18/2022

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My Fear of Grief

I had no idea when I was preparing for the birth of my first child that the skills I was learning were the same skills I would draw on a mere 18 months later in order to midwife myself through my grief following her death.

Self-Compassion: Six Ways to Practice Showing Up For Yourself

6/10/2022

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Self-Compassion Helped Me Survive

It was during my daughter’s cancer treatment that I had a lot of practice being there for myself. We stayed in the hospital for seven months, and everyday I lived in terror that she might not make it. My number one priority was to be there for her, but in order to do that, I had to function alongside many intense and overwhelming emotions.

Grieving Awake: When There Are No Words

6/3/2022

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Sometimes, in grief, there are no words to describe what we have experienced or the depth of the pain that we feel. There are just no words. I often find myself in this place, and it can be really lonely. I want to tell people how much I miss my daughter, how I’d give anything to hold her again, to go back in time to before she got sick. I want to say these things, but often I just can’t. It feels like too much and not enough, all at the same time.