Welcome to episode 3060 of the Daily Meditation Podcast.

I'm Mary Meckley and I welcome you to day five of this week's series all about holding space for yourself as you experience silent struggles.

And this is especially true if you're experiencing what is called disenfranchised grief.

This is the kind of grief that may have stigma attached to it.

It might be taboo to even talk about what you're experiencing.

You can feel alone and isolated.

And even though you might be told oh there's a group where you can go to and

connect with others or you could speak with a therapist but what you may find

is that when you do attend some groups or speak with some

kind of professional counselor or therapist, it is possible that you may come away feeling even

worse.

Now this is not always the case for sure.

Those groups and those therapists can be life saving at

critical times in your life, but you can also feel worse and I want to share with you how this can happen. So in yoga and

meditation there's a concept when you share your sympathy or compassion about someone's situation or even when you're thinking of yourself

when you're doing self-compassion it's vital to send yourself strength, to see yourself as strong. And sometimes when you do see professionals or go into some kind of group therapy to help you deal with some

extenuating circumstance in your

circumstance in your life, you might find that people look at you with such sorrow and they feel so badly about what you're going through.

And you might think about how you respond to similar situations.

So if you hear, for example, about a car accident or maybe something pretty spectacular like a natural disaster or a war taking

place somewhere.

Your instinct may be to feel such sorrow, to feel fearful and worried and anxious for the people involved in the situation and that is transmitted so when you think

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