EWG :: 09. (Re)Claiming our feeling

Embodied Writing Grief Series

We live in a culture that does not honor grief, or really any emotion that isn't happiness.  Feeling our emotions is discouraged, we are told to quickly "get over" our pain.  We have limited rituals around the death of a person, and basically none when it comes to grieving the death of a relationship or in the work we are doing in grieving the trauma we experienced and the losses that came with it.  

So we are not only reclaiming our feelings - emotions and bodily sensations - we are also creating our own rituals and ways of processing those feelings.