Approaching emotional pain is hard. Developing new ways of coping often requires first understanding and having gratitude for the support old defenses offered in the past.
William A. Richards • Beyond the Narrow Life
We best serve grieving families when we become curious about, and learn how to sit with, our own pain. This is difficult, to put it mildly.
Amy Wright Glenn • Holding Space: On Loving, Dying, and Letting Go
For those who are caught in the compensated side of the merging pattern, there is an additional step that must occur before they can touch the depth of their wound and heal it. They have to discover that their compensation is only an imitation of the real capacities they want, and they have to decide to give it up, at least for a moment, and drop i
... See moreSteven Kessler • The 5 Personality Patterns: Your Guide to Understanding Yourself and Others and Developing Emotional Maturity
Do not separate what is happening from your own history, and your own ancestry, and your own experience. And grieve it, so that you can then step into the power that it takes to fight back and build something different and lead the transition.
Andrew Boyd • I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor
As the possibility of human connection returns, the grief at its loss will also return. She will likely cycle through waves of rage,