Grief as Deep Activism

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February 3, 2019 a project of ServiceSpace If sequestered pain made a sound, the atmosphere would be humming all the time. - Stephen Levine - Grief as Deep Activism No one escapes suffering in this life. Yet we live in a collective denial, deprived of meaningful ways to speak of sorrows and collective practices of releasing grief. Francis Weller walks us to the shore of sorrows and shows us how this ocean ripples through our individual lives, through community, and into the Earth herself. He invites us to see the illusion of private pain that imprisons us. He encourages us to welcome grief as a powerful, sacred practice of opening the heart, of healing and of returning to kinship. He offers us musical notation for the song of a soul alive, drawn with compassion and caring. { read more } Be The Change Because our fates are bound together, grief is at the heart of making peace. Think about a grudge or a hurt you may hold within. How could acknowledgement and acceptance of grief help you release it? COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News How to Age Gracefully Anne Lamott Writes Down Every Single Thing She Knows A Reading List For The Spirit People Helped You Whether You Knew It Or Not How Trauma Lodges in the Body 6 Habits of Hope To Keep Company With Oneself The Life of Death DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 244,525 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other ServiceSpace projects include: KindSpring  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  Awakin  //  More