Storm Ciarán swept through the island of Jersey causing chaos, with many losing homes, ripping up and breaking hundreds of trees and changing the landscape. So many people have expressed their sadness, their grief with such losses. Woodlands, parks, and walking trails have been closed. Gradually, with the work of many, places to enjoy the peace of the wild amongst trees are beginning to open again. However, much has changed, and will look different. @radjoyhardtimes advocates for witnessing such losses, by attending hurt places, spending time with the places we love that have become damaged, harmed, ravaged by hurricane force winds in this case, we may open our hearts to our feelings about that new reality and hone our own boldness. We may drop into “the well of grief” @davidjwhyte ‘Embrace your grief, for there your soul will grow.’ - Carl Jung ‘Our broken hearts have the potential to open us to a wider sense of identity, one capable of seeing through the partitions that have segregated self from world. Through grief, we are initiated into a more inclusive conversation between our singular lives and the soul of the world…Bringing grief and death out of the shadow is our spiritual responsibility, our sacred duty. By so doing, we may be able to feel our desire for life once again and remember who we are, where we belong, and what is sacred.’ Francis Weller - The Wild Edge of Sorrow. Join me in the beautiful Val de la Mare arboretum, with Alex Morel CEO of @treesforlifejersey and see with new eyes, heart and mind. Sunday 14th January. 10.00am to 12.30pm. Meeting in the top car park, accessible by bus no. 9. Parking available, we encourage walking and cycling for those that are able. You may bring something of meaning to you, or find something during the morning that you wish to gift to the place in our closing ritual. Stones, twigs, leaves, 🍂 or flowers 🌸 no plastic. WhatsApp 077979 53556 #radicaljoy #radicaljoyforhardtimes #bearwitnessstormciarán #wildedgeofsorrow #ritualofrenewal #sacredworkofgrief #mysteryingrief #pathofsorrow
It is grief that moves us in the direction of contact, toward the helping hands and embrace of others. We need grief in order to heal these traumas and make sense of a world turned upside down. Remembering the wisdom of grief allows us to cultivate faith in a deeper pulse within the soul. It is the via negativa, the road through the depths that leads to what mythologist Michael Meade calls dark wisdom. Through this we are able to lean in to the world and trust the deeper currents that move through all things. "Where there is sorrow," wrote Oscar Wilde, "there is holy ground." This book is a meditation on the sacred ground of grief and the ways it enables us to walk in this world with its realities of loss and death, how it shakes us and breaks us open to depths we could not imagine. Grief offers a wild alchemy that transmutes suffering into fertile ground. We are made real and tangible by the experience of sorrow; as it adds substance and weight to our world. Beyond the crazed hunger in our culture to be exceptional, loss and sorrow wear away whatever masks we attempt to present to the world. Like the massive stone carvings in the jungles of Central America that now lie broken on the forest Floor, the monuments we erect to our own importance collapse. We are stripped of excess and revealed as human in our times of grief. Grief ripens us pulls up from the depths of our souls what is most authentic in our beings. Death has given my life meaning. Grief has broken me wide open and I am so grateful to the people who have embraced me❣️ #emotionalhealingjourney #healingfromtrauma #traumainformed #traumahealing #griefrecoverymethod #lifeafterloss #mindbodysoulhealing #griefrecovery #emotionalwellness #holistichealing #bereavementsupport #ownyourpower #griefsupport #siblingloss #energyclearing #findpeace #unprocessedgrief #soulawakening #soulactivation #thewildedgeofsorrow #fellowship #findingpurpose #consciousgrieving #ancestralbirthright #ritualsofrenewal #sacredworkofgrief #francisweller @iamrebeccajax @lmccurran @jenny.preston12 @lessonsfromgrief @align_with_leanne @loushiez @brae_quincey @just.breathe____ @andreawilliams1615 @charlee.allyn
Holding sacred space for grief, pain, fear, anger, emptiness - has become one of my most hallowed roles. Creating a brave container for women to honor their pain is some of the most important work I have ever offered. As Francis Weller has written, “Grief is an act of protest that declares our refusal to live numb and small. There is something feral about grief, something essentially outside the ordained and sanctioned behaviors of our culture. Because of that, grief is necessary to the vitality of the soul.” Awakening vitality of the soul through rituals of sacred grief and renewal. Yes, I do that. #sacredworkofgrief #ritual #honoringgrief #rewilding #wildwoman #sacredgrief
Candle lit. Listened to this beautiful story of a boy named Finn and those who love and grieve him. This is a beautiful example of grief-is-love-is-life through and through. Weeping for @tara.reese and the gift of sharing her son, of sharing her grief with us all. Healing from sharing. Grief shifting, changing, transforming. Holding grief in one hand and beauty and joy in the other. Both. And. Complex and layered. We need each other to live. We need each other to grieve. To heal. Thank you, @tara.reese. Thank you Erica of @rumblestripvermont. “Notice. Pay attention. Anything you’re feeling when you’re grieving is ok. The end.” -Tara Reese #forfinnyboy #grievewell #griefisloveislife #grieveincommunity #mamaloss #brutiful #bothand #sacredworkofgrief
Sing to mend any tears within the fabric of your relationships, your story, your memory, your heart. Song carries us through. This mantra is one I have sung a lot over the last three years. It is said to mend the tears within the fabric of your life. It connects you to the elemental flow of water and divine grace. It reminds you of your place within the tapestry of life. Eliza set this recording up the other night while I was singing at the piano. She sat on the couch listening and then said she wanted to be able to show her kids a video of me singing at the piano 😂. Earlier that day I had received news of multiple friends unexpected deaths. Covid. An accident. An illness. And the loss of a child. Singing that night really felt cathartic. I am not a trained singer. I don’t see my voice as a performance voice. But I am human, and humans need song. It is innate within us. I have a voice. And I value that voice I have. I treasure her expression. Song carries me through. Ps. Forgive the weird sounds in the background of a strange noise making toy that goes off mid song. Ha #song #humanexpression #grief #loss #sacredworkofgrief #francisweller #mantrasinging #mantramusic #mountainhome
“Grief is alive, wild, untamed; it cannot be domesticated. It resists the demands to remain passive and still. We move in jangled, unsettled, and riotous ways when grief takes hold of us. It is truly an emotion that rises from soul.” ~Francis Weller #wildedgeofsorrow #griefbook #francisweller #grief #emotionfromthesoul #sacredworkofgrief #sacredwork #feelingwhatsshowingup
We are hosting a one-year anniversary giveaway! One lucky human will win a mini grief kit including a copy of “The Wild Edge of Sorrow” by Francis Weller and a stunning 4.5” Halcyon pillar candle from @MithrasCandle. To enter, follow us and Mithras and tag a friend who has shown up for you in the comments. Winner will be randomly chosen via random number generator and announced September 17, 2020. Thank you for all of your support in this, our first year of existence in this wild world. We greatly appreciate you. To review: • Follow both PDDC (that’s us!) and @MithrasCandle. • Tag a friend who has shown up for you in the tough times, be it a time of grieving or otherwise. • Each friend you tag counts as an entry - tag several for more chances to win. It is challenging to honor the descent in a culture that primary values the ascent. We like things rising—stock markets, the GDP, profit margins. We get anxious when things go down. Even within psychology, there is a premise that is biased toward improvement, always getting better, rising above our troubles. We hold dear concepts like progress and integration. These are fine in and of themselves, but it is not the way psyche works. Psyche, we must remember, was shaped by and is rooted in the foundations of nature. As such, psyche also experiences times of decay and death, of stopping, regression, and being still. Much happens in these times that deepen the soul. When all we are shown is the imagery of ascent, we are left to interpret the times of descent as pathological; we feel that we are somehow failing. ― Francis Weller, The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief. Per Instagram rules, this promotion is in no way sponsored, administered, or associated with Instagram, Inc. By entering, entrants confirm that they are 13+ years of age, release Instagram of responsibility, and agree to Instagram’s terms of use. U.S., Canada, and Mexico mailing addresses only. Giveaway ends September 16, 2020 at 11:59 p.m. and a single winner will be announced on September 17, 2020. Image ID in comments.
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This past weekend I attended my first Community Grief Ritual. It took place at @dreamhivenyc facilitated by a gifted, graceful @harpriya_dreamschool. This unique and profound experience made me realize how much we have lost in our modern life society. Yes, I grieved that, too. The sad truth is that we do not even realize it. Anxiety, depression, mood disorders, suicide, feeling unsettled, feeling like something is missing, feeling physical pains and ailments, state of unease. We lost the VILLAGE and we lost the VILLAGEMINDEDNESS. That word VILLAGEMINDEDNESS woke and brought up a lot for me. We lost one of the most powerful healing tool - coming together. Togetherness. The Sense of Community. The Sense of Belonging. Being together in joy and in grief. Having experienced its power, I wonder how we allowed that to happen? How did we allow ourselves to let go of this most precious GIFT we as humanity were given from the very beginning of our existence on Earth. This past weekend, we came together to experience the Sacred Work of Grief, we came to grieve together, to grieve while being witnessed and held by other community members. And we dived into all realms and forms of grief. Deeply inspired by the work of Francis Weller. The grief of loss and knowing that we will lose everything we love: our loved ones, a career, a lover, a dream, a youth, an identity, a life we had before children, The grief of places within us that have not known love. The grief of the world around us. The grief of what we expected and did not receive. The ancestral grief. Where I grew up, the grief is reserved for a short period of time after a loss of a loved one. And often, it is not really something we do much much in community at all, except the funeral. Where I grew up, and what feels like very prevalent in Western culture, we are not comfortable with grief, with sadness, with intense emotions. From an early age, we are told to put ourselves together and so it is expected as we grow up. The sooner the better. But what does that even mean? Keep it all in?!?? Cont. in the comments #grief #griefritual #communitygriefritual #francisweller #feeling #sacredworkofgrief
Thank you for this day of carrying the candles for what is no longer manifest. Thank you for the nocturnal time and space for loving in this brilliant and connected way. Thank you for the opportunity to deliver the fragrant blooms of life to that which has passed. Guide my hands to source mementos of beauty to honor what which was, and give me the strength to carry a heart full of homage to the remembrance.✨ Unbury my pain. Discharge the sorrows that come forth. Thaw my consciousness so that I may feel the swell even of long- held untended sufferings. Let me take ownership of them. I will be shown many ways to numb out by those who value avoidance. Reveal to me the blessings of being a creature who can feel. Help me see grief as a ceremony of remembering meant to help me move the feelings up, out and through my body. ✨ Help me remember the purpose of honoring grief and not be tempted to make a tidy event of it. Weave ribbons around those present, making kindred spirits of us who pledged to keep the memories alive. ✨ Help me face the disappointment of loss with the passion of raw presence. Let me see that this body as made stronger by the emotions I fear will break me down.✨ Reframe my perspective and breakdowns so that my mind can support my body's unique potential for healing itself. Remind me that ash is a potent fertilizer.✨ Demonstrate how feeling charges me, how smoke shifts effortlessly like water, and how light that burns up the day must eventually give way to the reflective solace of the moon.✨ Remind me that endings are actually beginnings that when the candle goes out and flowers fade, the real work commences. ~Prayers for Honoring Grief ~Honoring Vigal, by @pixielighthorse Eternally grateful for the support of these words and the echoes of the heart of my sisters and brothers in mourning, doing the sacred work of moving with grief. I am joy-FULL because I have been (and continue to be) carved out by loss and grief. I love deeply and fully because I honor lifes fragility. I hold vigil for my loved ones and for yours. ✨🖤 . . . #itsallsacred #noemotionisbad #holdingspaceforitall #sacredworkofgrief #holidaysarehard #checkinonyourstrongfriend
“The darkness we enter when we are overwhelmed by the swell of grief is a place of belonging. It is the fecund and gravid darkness of the womb, the dynamic vitality of duende that pulses through our bodies when we are singing from the dark earth; it is the quiet thrum of nature moving through our sense and the body of the earth. Learning to befriend the darkness offers us a holding space where we are able to do the necessary work of metabolizing sorrow. This underworld domain is the sanctuary of our initiatory ordeal in which we are reshaped and remade under the hands of grief. It is the place where our apprenticeship with sorrow and our ability to be truly alive is deepened. It is the Dreamtime, offering images that quicken our souls and cause us to catch our breath.” -Francis Weller . . . . . . . #deathanddying #birthbreathanddeath #griefwork #sacredworkofgrief #ritualsofrenewal #francisweller
I am continuing to ground and clear many things in my life. It is painful and freeing. AND I wouldn't hesitate to hop in this van if it rolled up to my place today. #repost #metastaticbreastcancer #hungrynothungry #viciouscycle #balance #metathriver #metavivor #grief #sacredworkofgrief #breastcancer #sacredmedicinals #highdosecannabisoil #hdco #marijuanaismedicine #medicalmarijuana #medicalmaryjane #cannabisheals #cannabiscures #cannabisoil #ricksimpsonoil #rso #plantmedicine