Kelli Christine Case, Enriching Your Living

Kelli Christine Case, Enriching Your Living A group facilitator, teacher, and writer bringing a spiritual perspective to enriching living.

05/25/2023

In this week’s episode, Stephanie is joined by Kelli Case , embodiment mentor, to discuss bad trips and finding wholeness through grief. What happens when we experience “rough initiations”? Or experiences, including plant medicine journeys, that seem to alter our perception of reality in intense and difficult ways?

Kelli is an embodiment mentor, community builder, grief ritualist, song carrier, and devoted student of non-violent communication.

She is committed to the vision of re-wilding civilized people, guiding them to reclaim their indigeneity to our flowering earth, their belonging to our shared body of humanity, and their belonging in their own bodies.

She contributes to this vision by offering private healing sessions, online courses, and community rituals. She weaves a 'global village tapestry' with an emerging mycelium-like community made of heart connections formed around dinner tables and hands working in the soil with friends she's met around the world.

From the Pueblo elder and Mayan shaman, Martín Prechtel:“Grief is not sorrow. It’s not weeping. Grief is the beauty that...
04/16/2023

From the Pueblo elder and Mayan shaman, Martín Prechtel:

“Grief is not sorrow. It’s not weeping. Grief is the beauty that fills the sorrow, the loss, the terror of having lost something. Grief is what you do to rebuild and to make life happen again.

You better weep and feel the sorrow of loss. Of course, that goes without saying. But grief is what you do when you’re done doing that. It’s the beauty you make from that loss. It’s what you fill that hole with and what you grow with it.

If you’re going to have a loss you’re terrified of, it will solidify as an illness in your body or psyche. And you avoid the pain, instead of having it metabolized by grief into something that actually gives life.

You must use your hands and your voice to make something of beauty that will feed something besides yourself and a time beyond your own that you will not see. That’s what makes you a human worth descending from in this time.

I mean, if people could see the joy, the beauty, the incredibleness of being alive. We’re just a pile of ash and water stuck together so we can kiss and argue—I mean wow how could this happen? We’re allowed to be here this small amount of time, to have the majesty of seeing the sun come up, to have our children around the fire, to drink some tea.”

04/07/2023

Real talk... Last year when I hosted my first ever in-person day-long grief retreat, it started out very rocky. Someone decided in the first two minutes that I had not done enough to create a safe container (before we had introduced ourselves or established agreements), and decided to leave because they did not feel safe.

I completely respected their choice to leave, and at the same time, it really inspired me to think deeply about how to be a trauma-informed facilitator of a safe container, including what I can offer and what I can’t. I have so many more thoughts around all this than I will type out today and beyond what I shared in this video.

But I took a couple minutes this afternoon to introduce you to a concept I've devised called a "Spirit Potluck". It's the way that I cultivate group safety to optimize the likelihood of individual and collective emotional nourishment and healing in spaces like grief rituals and circles where we touch vulnerable places inside.

If you watch this video, I would love your feedback and to hear how it resonates with you! And I'm open if there's something you'd like to add. 🤍

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