Loss, and therefore grief, is part of our human experience. And yet the pathways through grief will depend on our coping mechanisms, our level is spiritual maturity, our societal conditioning — and, most importantly our willingness to actually feel, grieve, and surrender.

In the first podcast in the series on grief, we talk about how cultural and societal conditioning can influence what we hold on to the most, the confusion of non-attachment with detachment, and the ego-mechanisms that come into play when we are faced with loss.