09/25/2025
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Last night we witnessed each other. Week 2 of our 6-week series on the lung meridian led us to a space where we breathed in the wisdom of grief in a way that allowed us to rest in the gentle cradle of our own lungs.
🫁 In Chinese medicine, the lungs are not just about breath; they’re about the tender spaces of grief, letting go, and the invisible threads that bind us together. The lung meridian governs our capacity to inhale life fully and to exhale what no longer serves—sorrow included.
💔 When collective grief ripples through a community, it is as if all of us are trying to breathe through the same aching chest.
✨ And here’s where the medicine of community steps in: we become each other’s breath. Where one falters, another inhales deeply and offers presence. Where sorrow constricts, a friend’s laughter or tears can soften the chest and remind us that grief is not meant to be carried alone.
🖇️ The lung meridian also connects us to boundaries—knowing where we end and others begin. Yet in grief, those boundaries blur in a healing way; our shared humanity overrides separation. Community becomes the great lung of the collective body, moving sorrow through, oxygenating it with love, keeping us alive.
🎐 So perhaps the invitation is this: when grief comes—personal or collective—lean into the communal breath. Let others sigh, cry, and sing with you. Let the exhale of one become the inhale of another. It’s in this sacred exchange that grief transforms, not into something smaller, but into something shared, softened, and survivable.
And so it is.
