![]() ![]() Mourning is how I take care of my broken heart because, above all, my broken heart wants to be seen, held, and experienced just like we want to as well by other people. Sometimes I describe heartbrokenness as an expression of deep disappointment that wants to be taken care of. ![]() Brokenheartedness is a composite experience that holds other experiences like pain, aching, frustration, loneliness, or even anger. ![]() One of the ways I experience my grief is as brokenheartedness. Experiencing my grief is how I began to experience liberation through mourning. When I say mourning, I am speaking to my capacity to notice my grief, and allowing that grief to be in my experience by not judging it or pushing it away, which offers me the space to actually experience this difficult material. However, I am noticing that so much of my freedom and joy is bound up in my capacity to mourn things. I am learning to intentionally mourn in a skillful way. Mourning has become an important practice for me. As I look to the future, I know that I must also take refuge in my mourning. And while anger will be a major epidemic on its own soon, the pain that we have accumulated during the pandemic will be the primary public health concern. Anger arises to tell me that my hurt needs to be cared for. I understand anger to arise out of experiences of being hurt. However, it is as much about grief as it is about anger. To say that the book is about anger is true. I have a new book coming out called Love and Rage: The Path of Liberation Through Anger. On top of this, I struggle to figure out how to step into a new world which will be socially, economically, and politically unstable. I, like many people, am hurt by the loss of my old life as well as the death of so many people. I have been sitting in my house for two months, lonely and longing to see my friends, family, lovers, and to even go to the grocery store or a walk around my block without fearing contacting Covid-19 and enduring a potentially painful illness and/or death. ![]()
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