Inner Work BONUS: Healing Old Grief (w/ Personal Story)
Inner Work: A Spiritual Growth Podcast
Josephine Hardman
4.9 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 10 September 2021
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
In this bonus episode of Inner Work, I share a personal story about working with and healing old grief. Join me for a vulnerable conversation on:
- how we sometimes resist crying (and why)
- what happens to our bodies and souls when we repress old grief
- what it means to REALLY listen to what your heart needs
- using movement (especially dance) to express and heal grief
- two of the major challenges I've been going through recently (and what I'm learning from them)
- how I'm aligning myself with my Soul's calling to go bigger
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Music & editing by G. Demers
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Inner Work, a spiritual growth podcast. I'm your host, Josephine Hartman. I'm an intuitive healer and certified Akashik Records reader and teacher, driven by the purpose of helping others become more powerful by reconnecting to the healer within. To explore my work or connect |
| 0:23.0 | with me, you can visit josephinehartman.com. If you feel called to support the podcast, |
| 0:29.2 | please leave a rating or review on Apple Podcasts. I so appreciate your presence here, |
| 0:34.4 | and I'm honored to serve as a guide or companion on your path for a little while. |
| 0:40.3 | Now, on to the episode. |
| 0:46.3 | Welcome to this bonus episode of Inner Work. Let's dive right in. |
| 0:51.3 | As an adult, I've always found it challenging to cry, to just burst out crying spontaneously, |
| 0:58.6 | without caring about what I'm doing or where I am, or who's with me, or how others might |
| 1:04.4 | react to my tears. |
| 1:07.0 | I'm not sure how this resistance to crying developed in the first place, but I suspect it has something to do with |
| 1:13.6 | wanting to look and feel like I have it all together. |
| 1:18.6 | And who didn't grow up, especially in our culture, |
| 1:21.6 | subconsciously internalizing the message that to survive, |
| 1:25.6 | we have to be tough, we have to hold together, power through, |
| 1:30.3 | suppress our emotions. And even beyond that, if you also identify like me as a highly sensitive |
| 1:38.3 | person, you might have grown up with the messages like, don't be so sensitive, don't be so emotional, don't take things personally, |
| 1:48.0 | and in time, you just stop trusting your own feelings and your reactions to life, and you stop |
| 1:54.6 | trusting your own tears. So this can result in building walls around your heart to keep yourself safe. |
| 2:04.6 | And maybe you also learned at some point to swallow your tears, which means swallowing your grief. |
| 2:12.6 | But when swallowed, grief doesn't just get digested and disappear. |
| 2:18.3 | It doesn't get digested at all. |
| 2:20.3 | It just gets trapped in your heart. |
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