How's your day unfolding?
We're reaching out to touch on a tender subject...
If you've had the benefit of taking our preeminent assessment: The Real EQ Test, then you know that two (of the four) categories of Emotional Intelligence that we test are Self-Awareness and Self-Management.
Self-Awareness boils down to: What am I experiencing? And what effect am I having on the world around me?
Self-Management centers around: How am I navigating my emotional experience? And what do I need to do to have the effect I want?
Both Self-Awareness and Self-Management can be deeply impacted or disrupted when someone we love passes.
Grief is complicated. Each of us experiences it differently. And because so many additional emotions always accompany grief, it can be exceedingly difficult to identify what we are feeling at any given time. Our very ability to notice our self (and our effect on others) tends to dim during a grieving season. We lose our Self-Awareness.
Additionally, because of the way nervous system activation and brain states work, our grief forces us to try and cope with all of life from an ultra-low-Capacity, nearly Survival Mode much of the time. And our ability to navigate our emotional experience is also greatly compromised. We lose our Self-Management.
If we don't find ways to actively and healthily grieve, then not only does our overall Emotional Intelligence suffer (with all of the related ramifications), but all aspects of our lives are harder.
And in the hardest time of our lives, grieving people don't need anything to be harder.
We understand.
If these words speak to you, and you'd like an opportunity for some gentle, active, useful grieving – please join us for:
The Grief Well is a sacred set of rituals...
designed to support you wherever you are now in your process. Our intention with this offering is to provide emotionally safe and nurturing space for individual and collective mourning, reflection, and connection.
The Grief Well invites you to gather online with us and others around the world from the comfort of your own private space, and where we can be together with our feelings around the passing of our loved ones. We’ll tenderly guide you through a simple but profound ceremony that honours the depth of your grief, helps you navigate some of the complex emotions in your grieving process, and supports you in continuing to cultivate the love at the center of it all.
There’s a Place for You and Your Grief
The Grief Well is more than a ceremony. It’s a compassionate community experience that fosters healthy expression and maintenance of vital love.
While the ceremony is designed to be a cogent, and systematic process, everything we will invite you to do is optional. You have room to opt in or out of each ritual in order to suit your interests and to tend to your own safety and level of emotion.
Whether you are newly bereaved or have been carrying your grief for some time, you are welcome to join us. Together, we can create a space where healing, remembrance, and connection coexist.
Event Details
We gather on the evening of the Super-Blue-Full “Sturgeon” Moon
August 19th
5:30pm Pacific/8:30pm Eastern
When you register, you’ll get a confirmation and reminder emails with the zoom link to join and a list of items to consider bringing and/or preparing for the ceremony.
You can read more here, and/or save your spot by clicking the button below.
Many blessings to you on your way. 🙏🖤
And much love,
Natalie and Nathan