How's it going for you today?
We're doing alright...
We've got a whole smorgasbord of feelings, because we're human! Feelings are our strength in the war against the machines! (Joking...)
We do joke a lot around here. It's one way to work with emotion!
We've got a whole emotion-based line of jokes around what phrases we should put on a t-shirt.
"Everyone's an asshole in Survival Brain!"
"Don’t worry be happy — just kidding, I’m here for all the feelings."
"What doesn’t kill you… turns into PTSD"
"Feelings... Better Out than In!"
We recently joked about a t-shirt that says:
"When in Doubt... It's Grief."
Because Grief is a complicated emotion with many guises.
Grief can have us on Zillow, planning to buy a house in a foreign country.
It can have us under the covers planning to never face the light of day again.
It can have us maniacally stock-piling food and blankets.
Or have us impulsively cutting off all of our hair and selling all our clothes.
Grief sometimes comes with a side of fear and sleepless anxiety.
Other times it's paired with a rush of fury and resentment.
Still other times it comes with a love and a yearning so big and so deep we can't see anything else.
We grieve a lost loved-one, but also the loss of an era, loss of identity, loss of hope, loss of expectation, the loss of what we could have had, the loss of who we were before...
See, now, why our quippy t-shirt makes sense?
When in doubt as to what our current upset is rooted in, likely grief is playing a part.
Does this feel true for you?
If so...
We gently and loving invite you to:
The Grief Well
Full Moon Ceremony
Friday November 15
The Grief Well is an opportunity to gather online with us and others across the globe from the comfort of your own private space, where we can be together with our feelings around the passing of our loved ones, around other sorrows or losses in our life, and/or around expectations or dreams that didn't materialize.
We’ll gently guide you through a simple but profound set of rites and practices that honour the depth of your grief, help you navigate some of the complex emotions in your grieving process, and support you in continuing to cultivate the love at the center of it all.
We don't have the t-shirts, but we do have this magnificent grief-alchemizing ceremony.
The Grief Well gives us a place to gather, without asking us to leave our own safe space.
And it gives us a place to gently be with, and honour, and express all the emotional manifestations of our grief.
The Grief Well is also a place for us to put it all down for a little while, so we can have a little peace, and maybe get a little more rest.
If you've been crushed under the weight of your grief, come to the Well.
If you've been bravely soldiering on, ignoring the hurt, come to the Well.
If you're looking for what to do next but you can't see through your own upset, come to the Well.
If you don't know what it is, but now you're thinking, "I might be grieving!" – please, come to the Well.
We'd love to share it with you. Wherever you are on your grief journey, you are welcome with us.
(And please feel free to pass this on to anyone else you think could use it right now, too.)
In love and empathy.