Gretchen Miura is a mindfulness meditation teacher, grief care facilitator, and dear friend. In her work with Lighthouse Circle, a grief support group she runs with Sarah Furuya, she creates and holds open spaces and opportunities to share our stories and experiences about it. 

Even if you haven’t lost anyone close to you yet, grief is something we all experience throughout our lives. Grieving for lost childhoods, past versions of ourselves, even grief over what might have been–there are so many different types of grief to grapple with in this messy, imperfect, human life.

In this episode we talk about how important it is to allow ourselves to “feel to heal” and how “what we persist resists.” Learning ways to open up and allow for the complex emotions that may emerge during grief, as well as holding it all gently, helps us carry it forward. Our losses never really go away, nor do they get “fixed.” But by learning how to integrate them into our lives, we can learn to experience the closest thing to “healing” we can.

Gretchen leads us through a brief RAIN practice for today’s take-away. You can find many more resources on RAIN on Tara Brach’s website: https://www.tarabrach.com/rain

You can find more information about Lighthouse Circle, including the self-paced Evergreen program and free resources, here: https://www.sarahfuruya.com/grief-support

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