What do we do with the grief of living through collective unraveling?


How’s your heart these days?

For many, there seems to be a pervasive sense of grief just under the surface.

It’s not only the familiar grief of a known loss or deep held regret…

This grief comes from collective losses that are so much bigger than most of us know how to process.

In the presence of this vast, collective grief, people tend to move in one of two directions:

  1. They turn towards fundamentalism. And while this does include traditional religious fundamentalism, it includes anything that becomes the savior of your pain — you might get fundamentally 5D obsessed, or make AI your new godhead.
  2. They are overwhelmed with diseases of despair. Addiction, depression, hopelessness…the combination of pain and powerlessness leads to numbing out.

Which way do you tend to go? We all have our defaults (mine is definitely numbing out).

The simple act of becoming aware of your patterning is the first step to shifting into a more empowering relationship with your grief — and with these times of big change.

But what’s next? What do we do with this awareness?

My prayer is that we can take our grief and metabolize it into creative agency. And that we might even find joy in the process.

This is exactly what I'm exploring with my upcoming live workshop, Spiritual Leadership at the Threshold.

I know — leadership is a loaded word, but I chose it for a reason.

Because I don’t think we can rely on the old leadership that got us here.

I do think we can access greater inner authority at the individual level.
Then we can show up more authentically in community.
And then together, we can root into presence and bring mor joy into this wild world.

This is a three-hour gathering for people who can feel that we're living through significant times and want embodied, practical skills for showing up fully and authentically — without bypassing grief or drowning in despair.

I'll share more about what we'll actually do together over the coming days. For now I just wanted you to know that if what I described at the top of this email resonates — this is for you.

Early bird pricing is available through April 8.

>>> Read more and register here.

Many blessings on your path,

P.S. If you are just not into this, no worries. Click here and I’ll stop telling you about it :)

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