132 How to Heal from Sorrow and Grief Part 1

The Place We Find Ourselves

Adam Young

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🗓️ 13 February 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

For most modern people, the place we find ourselves is in a land where grief and sorrow are unwelcome. Most of us do not feel like the people around us can bear the depth of our sorrow and grief. And since we don’t want to risk our sense of belonging—our sense of acceptance—we hide our sorrow and grief. But sorrow and grief are real. In today’s episode, I identify some of the types of sorrow and grief that we all carry. Then I discuss the immense cost of denying our sorrow/grief and invite you to consider what it would look like to welcome your sorrow and grief and bring it into the light.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the place we find ourselves podcast. I'm Adam Young and today
0:06.1	Begins a series of episodes about what to do with your sorrow and grief
0:12.4	And let me just say at the outset that I believe sorrow and grief are vital
0:18.1	Vital means pertaining to life think of the medical term vital signs
0:23.3	Signs of life if you have sorrow and grief it does not mean there is something wrong with you
0:30.2	It means that your vital signs are working properly in other words you are alive
0:39.2	One premise of today's episode is that sorrow and grief are vital
0:45.2	That is if you want to be fully alive you need to befriend
0:50.8	Your sadness is your sorrows your griefs
0:55.4	Much of what I'm going to engage today comes from Francis Weller's excellent book titled the wild edge of sorrow
1:04.6	I will quote Francis Weller multiple times in this series of episodes and
1:10.2	The book that has helped me so much of his is the wild edge of sorrow
1:15.0	Let's begin by talking about the place we find ourselves with regard to sorrow and grief
1:23.2	For most modern people the place we find ourselves is in a land where grief and sorrow are
1:32.6	unwelcome
1:34.1	Unwelcome in other words
1:36.8	most of us do not feel
1:39.8	Like the people around us can bear
1:44.7	the depth of our sorrow and grief
1:48.1	As a result we take our sorrows and griefs and we push them out of our awareness and in this way
1:56.4	We declare to our sorrow you are not welcome in my life
2:02.4	It's as if we believe that the sorrow we carry will not be welcomed by others and
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