Loss isn’t something we can think our way through.  The thinking mind can’t comprehend the depths of emotional pain.  It sometimes tries to fix what’s wrong by minimizing the pain we’re feeling, or by replaying thoughts of how this shouldn’t have happened or how it isn’t fair.  But loss isn’t a problem to be solved. It’s a process that we move through–and that moves through us.

Bringing Mindfulness and Compassion to Loss

Finding Strength Within

We can hold ourselves with kindness, allowing the feelings of emptiness or sadness, or the sense that something is missing.  We can pay attention to whatever is true for us in the moment. By being present to ourselves in this way we can begin to heal, breath by breath.

Awareness

Curious Observation

Cognitive Flexibility

Attitudes of Mindfulness

Focus

Treating Yourself with Tender Loving Care

As we care for others and the responsibilities of life, it can be hard to find the space to tend to our own emotional well-being and yet, when we’re dealing with change and loss, self-care is all the more imperative.

Recognizing and Allowing the Feelings of Loss

The first steps in healing are acknowledging what we’ve lost and allowing the feelings, meeting ourselves with compassion rather than avoidance or judgment.

The Wisdom of Letting Go

Letting go doesn’t mean forgetting; what we’ve lost is forever etched in the heart; it’s there for us to bring to mind and appreciate what was. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

Moving Through Loss

Unfelt emotions are like energy that’s become stuck. By opening to our emotional experience, to the sorrow as well as the joy, we free up energy that supports healing.  We allow emotional energy to move through us.

Bringing Mindfulness and Compassion to Loss

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