The Pathless Path: Language, Grief, Culture & ”Radical Acceptance”

2020-06-26

Podcast Episode #4 of the On the Pathless Path Series Highlights: "Sometimes after loss we hear things differently... People want us to have moved on, gotten better, gotten over it, but when you have lost the person who is your soul there is no moving on except with them. You never move on from them. There is no getting better, because you were never sick. You are grieving... What happens is we start to feel more isolated and lonely...We don’t want our grief managed or to be put under a m...

Podcast Episode #4 of the On the Pathless Path Series

Highlights:

"Sometimes after loss we hear things differently...

People want us to have moved on, gotten better, gotten over it, but when you have lost the person who is your soul there is no moving on except with them. You never move on from them. There is no getting better, because you were never sick. You are grieving...

What happens is we start to feel more isolated and lonely...
We don’t want our grief managed or to be put under a microscope.

Grief as path.

It’s the resistance to difficult emotion that presents the difficulty. We live in a culture that wants us to be happy like we are going to meet happiness on the other side of grief. We live in a culture that is swept into excessive positivity..."

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