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Big Announcement!!! (Alongside big grief) Roots of

Big Announcement!!! (Alongside big grief) Roots of Ritual - Grief Tending Foundations is one for application. ❤️‍🔥 Because we gotta keep showing up. Even though. And still. And right until the very end. 🙌🏼💛💛💛🍉

We are in recovery on so many levels – social is

We are in recovery on so many levels – social isolation, ecological collapse, systemic racism – not to mention our own personal grief, trauma & loss and that of our ancestral lineages.💔⁠
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This is a heavy burden to hold on our own and without the right support or skills.😢⁠
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👉We must have access to the somatic skills that allow us to find true rest. We must be able to feel ourselves deeply, so we can reconnect with the nourishment and beauty of the Earth, ourselves & each other.🌿⁠
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Not to fix, but to allow what is broken to rest, to be held and seen.⁠
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Because the alternative is suppressing our pain. The problem with this solution is that SUPPRESSED PAIN BLOCKS OUR ABILITY TO FEEL JOY & PLEASURE, ALSO.⁠
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In order to return again and again to our fullest joy, aliveness, connection with each other & love for life we must have a space to express and process our grief. 💧💛💧⁠
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YOU NEED & DESERVE THE SPACE TO FULLY GRIEVE.⁠
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Return From The Underworld is our 12 WEEK online SOMATIC & SOUL JOURNEY TO SOOTHE DEEP ONGOING GRIEF. 🌊🌊🌊⁠
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This course merges ancient wisdom with modern research to cultivate practices that bring solace and healing.⁠
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🌚 Comment UNDERWORLD to learn more. We begin soon.🌚⁠

💧When we compare our grief by telling ourselves

💧When we compare our grief by telling ourselves that our situation is worse than anyone else’s, we push away the people who care about us the most and close our hearts off to connection, love and support.⁠
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⚖️Sometimes comparing our grief to others may cause us to isolate ourselves and stay stuck in our grief, believing we are truly, deeply alone in our experience..⁠
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🙏🏽We are ALL deserving of support, and healing happens through compassion for all parts of ourselves.⁠
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😭It is true that there are certain life experiences that are more likely to bring us to our knees…⁠
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AND, when there is trauma mixed in to our loss it can be more difficult to allow ourselves to move through the natural flow of grief.⁠
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🌀We can get stuck spinning around in what I call the ‘Trauma Vortex’ if we don’t have the skills to pull ourselves out of it.⁠
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Different people might experience the same circumstance differently, depending on if there is a history of trauma, how much support is around them, and whether they have experience working with their grief and trauma prior or not.⁠
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❗️BUT this doesn’t mean that one kind of grief or trauma is more worthy of support than another.⁠
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🤲We all need to do this work and we all need support.⁠
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We need to cultivate compassion for ourselves, and in my experience, this is a process that must be done in community, with the compassionate reflection of others. ⁠
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We are wounded in relationship and we heal in relationship.⁠
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💚WE ALL NEED TO DO THIS SACRED WORK OF GRIEVING, AND WE ALL NEED SUPPORT. Period. 💚⁠
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👉Do you struggle with comparing your grief to someone else’s? Have you ever told yourself your grief isn't worthy of space? Or that no one else would understand the depth of your suffering? ⁠
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💛Let me know below in the comments.👇⁠
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The more we can have this conversation, the less shame we will bring to our experience and the more collective compassion we can generate.♥️⁠

🌲The DARK WOODS Grief + Ritual Tending Facilita

🌲The DARK WOODS Grief + Ritual Tending Facilitation Training begins this April!🌲⁠
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Group work is also a great way to scale your impact - you can support WAY more people through community grief circles and ritual than you could reach 1:1. ⁠
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This scalability also allows you to increase your income without working more hours - because being deeply nourished in all the ways as a facilitator - including financially - is key to the long term sustainability of this work. ⁠
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We have 5 out of 12 spots available and are looking for those who want to take their healing or community practice to the next level of leadership and service. This work changes lives.🙏🏿⁠
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Comment LEADERSHIP to learn more.😍⁠

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