Personal rituals to carry us through grief
'Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because dawn has come.'Rabindranath Tagore I hesitated to use the word 'ritual' in this blog post. I've noticed…
Healthy Grief: How Do You Feel About Bowing to Someone Who’s Died?
Bowing to someone who has died can feel rather unnatural to those of us raised in the West. We’re not used to bowing in daily life. We might associate it…
The Gift of Song
https://youtu.be/nUMg6swWy5U Threshold Choirs were founded in California to sing at the bedside for those who are ill or dying, replicating the experience of a mother singing to her child. It…
Grief: Does Time Really Heal?
Grief can be felt as a wide variety of different bodily and emotional sensations. According to the American psychotherapist, Dave Richo, grief arises from a combination of 3 emotions -…
Renewing: Freeing Ourselves from the Past
Human beings are good at resisting change. This resistance comes from the ego that craves security and sees that in what it thinks should stay just as it is. It…
Sailing Home
I led a funeral yesterday for someone with a strong connection to the ocean. Sailing can be a wonderful metaphor for life and death. It involves working with the elements:…