Emotional
What if grief isn't the problem, but the absence of grief is?
Modern life has quietly removed almost every communal way to grieve. No village gatherings after loss. No seasonal rituals for what's gone. The grief doesn't disappear, though. It just goes underground and shows up as numbness, addiction, anxiety, or a low-grade depression that never quite has a name.
The work of the mature person is to carry grief in one hand and gratitude in the other and to be stretched large by them.— Francis Weller
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The thinker
Psychotherapist & Grief Ritualist
Francis Weller is a psychotherapist, writer, and soul activist who has spent decades working with grief as a communal and necessary human experience, not a clinical disorder.
Based on Francis Weller — The Wild Edge of Sorrow, summarised and reframed by Insights.
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