Welcome to episode 3,061 of the Daily Meditation Podcast. I'm Mary Meckley and I welcome you to

day six of the series we're exploring this week. This is the next to the last

episode of holding space for yourself as you experience silent suffering.

And this week, you have had a unique challenge.

It is a bend don't break challenge,

where you're encouraged to reflect on the kind of

sorrow you might be experiencing and then to lean into it and this is going to

allow you to acknowledge and And this can be a first step

to acknowledge and accept your emotions and experiences.

This can be a first step toward healing,

because it does allow you to confront and process your feelings rather

than to suppress them.

And you may find that with certain kind of suffering you may experience it could be a type of disenfranchised grief and throughout this week you've explored how disenfranchised grief can have a stigma

associated with it to where you don't feel comfortable sharing something embarrassing or something that you might be ashamed

of and it might not even be in regards to you personally, but maybe in regards to what you do, or your family, or your home, or whatever

it might be, sometimes there can be a type of taboo trauma that you're experiencing.

So you may find that you must lean inward and process your emotions alone. But you're not really alone because

when you connect to yourself deeply and you gain insight and understanding by leaning into your pain.

It can help you to understand yourself better and this as a result helps you in your

relationships the more self-knowledge and self-compassion you have by going deeply inward and facing your pain, you're better able

to connect with others, especially if they're experiencing pain.

So it can help to make you an incredibly compassionate person.

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