A story of grief and grieving (part I)

We don't know how to relate to the experience of loss and how to grieve.  Some think grief is only about the loss of someone you love, but it's the process we go through when we confront the inevitability of loss in forms, and the threat to it evokes.  When we can't be with grief we develop an imbalanced relationship with it; either shutting down or becoming overwhelmed by emotions like sadness (or anger!).  This is the first of a 2 (or 3!) - part series on grief and grieving.

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Parenting can lead us to a threshold in life we hadn’t known before. We're bringing into the parenting dynamic with our kids the momentum of our previous experiences - our resources and resilience, as well as our disconnection and disembodiment due to trauma (individual, familial, cultural, historical & intergenerational).  Beyond the challenges we face to parent in ways we may not have been parented, there is a deep love for our children that wants to be expressed and known in presence with them. There's also a yearning in us to experience that deep love ourselves; to feel our power and to live authentically, just as we yearn to protect that for our kids, too. The urgency to heal what's still alive within us might come up with a force because of them, and yet it's ultimately a reclamation of our life force, vitality, joy, connection and creativity we're most hungry for. It’s sometimes a desire bold as love that fuels our courage to meet what we fear to face.