Our Invitation (from the 2024 Grief & Death Festival) We are living through times when wars and extinctions have become part of daily life—and where the scale of collective pain and loss often escapes our personal grasp. In these days when loss and death knock on our doors in many forms, we extended an invitation to the 2024 Grief & …
What I am curious about is not the question “Is there life after death?”, but the expression “There is life with death”. There is life with death. When I die, I will never be able to go for a walk with my children, spend time with them and sip my morning coffee. After all, there is death in this world. My first …
In my first meeting with the people, I hold space for their grief, I talk about my own assumptions about grief. I do this in order to enable us to speak the same language and help them to get them centred in this meandering road we call grief. We want to know what is happening around when we move to …
“But who can remember pain, once it’s over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind.” Margaret Atwood The words are impressive and true as well. When we are in grief, in addition to emotional reactions, the physical …
First of all, I did not write this article all by myself. It has been an article that has been shaped by the answers to my call “how would/do you want to be treated while you are grieving?” two weeks ago. I am deeply indebted to all who have accompanied to this article with their words and/or their hearts. Thanks. …
Is there such thing as the dictatorship of grief? Naturally there is. Let me explain. There is an unwritten hierarchy of grieving in society. According to this hierarchy, it is possible to make a list of experiences deserving the most and the least grieving.If your grief is due to a death of your beloved one, you might think that you …