#066: Learning To Let Go with Emma Tait

The Mark Groves Podcast

Mark Groves

Education, Relationships, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture

4.9 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2020

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

When I was asked to speak on grief, I knew immediately Emma Tait would be the ideal guest for this show. Emma Tait is the driving force behind much of Create The Love, she not only keeps our team together but so much of my life too. Emma walks us through the essentially undefinable path of grief. In her gentle but clear way, she shows us how the answer is found in accepting there is no answer, that sometimes the only way to make sense of life is to see there is no making sense. Emma shares her personal story of loss and how much she has learned to surrender to grief and pain, and in doing so, letting it move through - allowing it to come and go - rather than becoming stuck in the storyline. If you are trying to make sense of any kind of grief this episode is full of lessons for you.

Find Emma on Instagram here!

Read Emma's article on grief here.

Emma Tait is a writer, soul guide, woodsman, dog mom, and soon to be human mom - to name a few. Emma’s life’s work is to empower others to meet, know, love, and walk with their whole selves through all of life’s ebbs and flows. She believes the way forward is for each of us to come back to ourselves through mastering our emotional, physical, and spiritual wisdom. She guides others through her writing, 1:1 coaching, and speaking as they begin the inward journey of embodying the courage to show up and be seen, a journey which always begins within. Connect with her on Instagram.

Discover:

The parts that we want to reject are the wisest, teach us the most and expand us the most
The heaviness of grief and how to navigate through it
Why grief wakes us up to feeling alive and deep pain creates gratitude
Why we've been socialized to think grief is bad
The beauty of loss, time and gentleness
Sometimes it just doesn't make sense, and that's ok
Give yourself permission to find joy again
A different way to see death

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0:00.0	What's up? What's up? What's up? What's up? Welcome back to another episode of the
0:11.8	Mark Rose podcast. It's 2020. I swear it was just 2014. Woo. You know, this new year
0:25.0	felt different in some way and it could be just my mind. You know, I'm open to that
0:31.6	I'm a possibility that I was just convinced by that by all the people talking about
0:36.0	new moons and new Mercury's and Gatorade and all that stuff. But really it was
0:42.8	kind of interesting to experience within our bodies the end of a decade. You know,
0:49.6	as opposed to the end of a year, but the end of a decade there's something that
0:52.9	seems sort of more significant about that much like our birthdays when they're 20 or
0:58.4	30 or 40. I think we often feel there's a certain level of responsibility that meets,
1:03.8	you know, this idea of where we're supposed to be when we compare our lives to other people,
1:10.0	when we compare our lives to the story that we've been taught of how it's supposed to unfold.
1:15.0	So I have a couple invitations for you. The first one is to not allow yourself to, you
1:22.4	know, to observe when you are comparing your story and where you should be and what
1:27.4	your life should be like and how much money you should have made or what kind of job you
1:31.9	should have had or how many kids are not or married or divorced or all that fucking bullshit.
1:39.0	That stuff that just creates pain because you are comparing your life to quote unquote
1:44.7	normality which let's be honest, like normal can be calming, but it's pretty fucking boring.
1:53.3	In the sense that what I mean by that, it's there's no shame to like that type of life
1:59.9	that has fit the narrative of what we're taught. It's just that when we compare ourselves
2:06.4	and the unfolding of our lives to those things and they don't match and then we experience
2:10.8	suffering because of that. We're really comparing our lives to the systems that we've been
2:16.1	taught to desire. The outcomes, the destinations that we've been taught to want, the material
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