09/03/2024
GRIEF
Last year I divorced, or I was divorced after 10 years marriage
In Shaman cultures, no one grieves alone.
When one person grieves, everyone grieves.
They grieve together.
The shamans knew if grief wasn’t fully felt, held & transmuted, it gets passed on from generation to generation.
With each generation the tribe gets sicker and sicker if the grief isn’t transmuted.
Shamans believed grief left unhealed lead to depression, mental illness, addiction, violence & wars in communities.
Shamans knew that for every life taken, that was not fully grieved, the spirit would stay with the family and the grief gets passed on to the next generation.
We are not our grief.
Our grief is so deep because it’s been inherited generation after generation.
We must be the generation that breaks the curse.
That holds it, feels it, sees it, transforms & transmutes it.
In Shaman culture, when the mother lost her child, the tribe would surround the grieving mother while she cried, wailed, screamed, sang; all day & all night, as long as it took.
The tribe surrounded her & played their instruments, sang, danced, drummed.
They all grieved together as one.
They knew grief when felt and held, transmuted, turns to joy.
We do not need to grieve alone.
When one of us grieve, we all grieve.
When one of us heals, we all heal.
Until we learn to grieve together, no one has fully grieved.
When we come together, what we may find is underneath the grief, there is a lot of joy.
Thank you for being here,
Please have compassion for you on this journey,
