Today on Feminine Roadmap guest Patti Ashley is talking with us about transforming grief into love and grace. Patti broadens the narrow perception of grief from being focused on losing a person to the loss of anything meaningful in our lives. During these unprecedented times the world has experienced a whole new kind of grief, a collective grief, as the world came to halt and life as we have known it has forever changed. She believes that in order to step fully into the joy of life, we have to step fully into grief whether that is the loss of a loved one or the loss of something important to us. Patti encourages listeners to be willing to face the grief, to stay and be with it not fearing it so that the grief can be transformed into love and grace. Fire is a refining element in nature as well as in dealing with our grief, it is useful to help grief lose it’s power over us and the pain in us. Patti shares some amazing tools and insights that can help us navigate the stages of grief and the many layers that come with it. If you find yourself or a friend struggling to find joy or feel depressed, it may be due to a form of unresolved grief. Grab a cuppa something wonderful, bring a friend and join us in this healing conversation. http://www.feminineroadmap.com/episode177/
SHOW NOTES:
“Grief isn’t just a person dying, anytime there’s a transition or a loss in our lives we experience what Elizabeth Kubler-Ross talked about in her five stages of grief.”
2:51 The reason she wrote her memoir
“All depression is unresolved grief.”
8:45 How to relieve some of the tension
16:57 How our stories about safety are formed and how they manifest themselves in our lives
27:49 Using story to help ourselves move through grief
“Imagination is just as strong in the body as what is really happening.”
36:58 The healing power of tears
47:13 Transforming grief into love and grace
“All feelings are ok but all behavior is not.”
56:57 Patti’s 3 big ideas
RESOURCES:
Patti Ashley Facebook lives on Fridays at 11am MST
“Letters to Freedom: From Fear to Love to Grace” Patti Ashley
Music by bensound
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