Dr Rachel Connor
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Dr Rachel Connor
Grief can open the door to holy desire, which in turn leads us into the arms of that which we yearn for.
Mirabai Starr • Wild Mercy: Living the Fierce and Tender Wisdom of the Women Mystics
You're not a writer, you're a problem solver.
Your words should educate, inspire, or entertain.
Ana Calinsubstack.comgrief is not a problem to be solved or a malady to be cured. It’s a sacred reality to be entered.
Mirabai Starr • Grieving Together
Connecting into why it’s valuable. Sometimes you get so lost in a project that you forget why you started it in the first place, or why doing this kind of work is important to you at all. If you reconnect to that, you’ll raise the perceived value of doing the work in your brain—and it will make it easier to stick with. Try writing about why the... See more
Dan Shipper • Why You're Not Doing Creative Work
... See more“While grief may look like an expression of pain that serves no purpose, it is actually the soul’s acknowledgment of what we value. Grief is the honour we pay to that which is dear to us. And it is only through the connection to what we cherish that we can know how to move forward. In this way, grief is motion.”
– Toko-pa Turner “Belonging: