EWP :: 11. The discomfort & beauty of grief

Embodied Writing Pleasure series

When we remove the cages around our hearts, we are not only opening ourselves to both new pleasure and potential grief, we are also opening ourselves to past grief, the grief we stuffed down by not allowing or denying our emotions to flow due to past heartaches.

Grief is an uncomfortable emotion.  I don't really know anyone who enjoys grief.  Grief can hurt physically, it often brings uncontrollable tears, it can make our whole body and being shake and quake.  Grief can shatter us.  

And.

We grieve because we loved and because we loved, we lived.  We didn't simply survive.  We didn't do the bare minimum.  We didn't hide ourselves away.  We loved and we lived and we experienced the joy and ecstasy and sorrow and pain of it all.

There is beauty in that.

There is beauty in experiencing and living our lives in the fullest ways we are able, which includes both opening our hearts and having them broken. 

Today, I invite you to sit in the discomfort of grief.  To allow it.  To open your heart to i…