A therapist friend said to me today that—to a first approximation—all mental/emotional health is about learning to mourn.
I'm going to be thinking about that for a long time.
A therapist friend said to me today that—to a first approximation—all mental/emotional health is about learning to mourn. I'm going to be thinking about that for a long time.
suffering is the result of the event coupled with the person experiencing the event inside a culture
Niklas Serning • Trauma - the search for a poisoned chalice?
grief is a name we give to any circumstance we are holding onto that we do not know how to let go of, or any experience we expected to manifest that did not materialize. Until we integrate our grief, we do not have the capacity to feel deeply without losing balance.
Michael Brown • Alchemy of the Heart
I’ve come to also see grief as part of the everyday experience of being human in a world that is both good and cruel. In this sense, grief is a constant for us. It is a real and right response to our vulnerability.
Tish Harrison Warren • Prayer in the Night: For Those Who Work or Watch or Weep
In other words, taking on the work of healing involves more heartbreak, and more grief.
Tiago Forte • The Heart Is the Bottleneck
by restoring grief to soul work, we are freed from our one-dimensional obsession with emotional progress. This “psychological moralism” places enormous pressure on us to always be improving, feeling good,
Francis Weller • The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief
Our suffering consists of two components: a mental component and an emotional component. We usually think of these two aspects as separate, but in fact, when we’re in deep states of suffering, we’re usually so overwhelmed by the experience of emotion that we forget and become unconscious of the story in our minds that is creating and maintaining it
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