The people and animals you have loved will always be with you. Love doesn't die when the physical body disappears. Love is eternal. It is infinite and never-ending, so our loved ones live inside us for eternity. Without the physical body, the connection is different, and we need to grieve to fully embrace this new way of being with each other. The loss hurts and cuts deep. We want to feel them with our bodies, but we cannot anymore. We also become aware of our own mortality,

Deepest healing happens when we tend to our most vulnerable place inside of us. The one we learned to avoid and run away from. The one we don't want to go to because it's lonely, dark, and empty. It all makes sense. We most likely spent years avoiding that place, building a mechanism to keep ourselves from ending up there. Our nervous system reacts if we are at risk of entering that place. We protest, get big, or shut down and withdraw. We stay in our heads, or cover the pain

First, you are overwhelmed by its excruciating pain. Then you remember how to breathe again between the waves crushing down on you. Time goes by, and you ask yourself: Am I avoiding the pain, or am I moving forward? Am I working through it, or am I simply functioning with it? I don't think I fully allow myself to feel the pain, the sadness, and the devastation. I am not sure why. It feels too heavy, too full of guilt, too dark to be in it. But not being in it makes me feel di

We tend to set up our life the way it was. We choose the same things over and over again. Because it is familiar, and the familiar feels comfortable and safe. But what if we chose the unfamiliar? What if we walked down a different path, a new one, and asked ourselves, how does this one feel? What if we took the time to experience the new sensations, sit with them, and become more intimate with them? Sometimes, we feel as if we lost our anchor in life once we let go and decide

When we imagine how things could go wrong, we play out scenarios in our heads, for instance, losing our job, not getting a promotion, receiving negative news from a medical test, our partner leaving us, or cheating on us. Maybe these things happened to us in the past, or we are afraid they will happen in the future. Often, these scenarios could not be further from reality because we are excellent at what we do for a living, and the man we are with loves us just as much as we

How do we create the things we long for in life? A loving relationship. A fulfilling career. A family. A beautiful home. Where to start?

Being with the stillness inside us is the bravest thing we can do. That is where we seem most vulnerable but are most powerful.

Me: I am struggling. I feel hurt. But my wound seems not big enough. It is not painful enough. I cannot describe it or touch it. I guess...