An emotion-focused journal

a certain sense, I suspect the bypassing of traumatic grief may be the greatest threat facing humankind today, responsible for immense suffering from addictions and abuse to social disconnection and perhaps even war. When we disconnect from our grief, we disconnect from ourselves. When we disconnect from ourselves, we disconnect from others and

And so once we have emerged from the seismic crisis of loss, what does pausing to be with grief look like? The basic tenets of this revolution are to cultivate self-awareness, emotional transparency, and self-compassion.

He said that we cannot chase happiness and expect that we will attain it. Happiness can only arise as a byproduct of a life devoted to the service of others — a view that undermines the very foundation upon which the happiness-peddlers have built their platform.

trinity of self-awareness: learning, adapting, and trusting intuition.

We have earned this grief, paying for it with love and steadfast devotion.

difficulties may arise when we use “normal life” to evade grief.

Whatever we decide to do in response to our feeling of loneliness, however, it is done with conscious intention rather than unexamined impulse.

We learn we don’t have to check out to endure.