Hi friends, welcome back to the show. Today I have a very tender practice for you.

We are, as you already know, talking about grief on the show this week. And I wanted to offer you a simple practice that can be really, really deep and profound

around how the grief we hold in our hearts isn't something that we do alone, that the grief

we feel inside is often shared.

And we have this beautiful ability as a human being to grieve on behalf of other

people, to hold pain and to feel pain, to really actively feel pain in our bodies, in our

hearts through the connection that we hold to other people, and that can include people that we have never

met, people we don't actually personally know.

So I want you to take this practice to your journal today, and as you journal on each thing,

give yourself a real moment, a long extended moment of space to read what

you have just written and to feel it in your body. Today I want you to sit down and I want you to

write a grief that you're holding in your heart on behalf of humanity. A grief that is collective,

a grief that is big and objective and that spans far beyond the corners of your own space,

your own life, your own home, your own family, something that you're grieving that really

connects to the world, to this earth that we walk upon. What is something that you're grieving

that belongs to us all? You might write about a natural disaster you feel connected to.

You might write about war, about injustice, about the children of the world, about the state

of nature and our environment.

See what comes.

Make sure it flows straight from your heart.

And from there, I want you to take a moment and write a grief that you're

feeling in your heart on behalf of someone you know. So someone in your life who is going through

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