Stay true to your heart.
Plumb the depths of grief


Loss touches the heart in the deepest of ways and provides an inroad into the core of the mystery of love. Jeannie and friends plumb the depths of staying true to the heart through grief. 


Jeannie invites participants to to settle into being. She talks about the alchemical properties of grieving, how it serves our opening, and the meeting of undigested pain.


Exchanges

Exchange 1: Participant spent 7 years with a teacher and then watched him get defensive with someone who got prickly after sharing a traumatic memory. Jeannie encourages her to open to the love and to be with the loss and the shock of losing the teacher and the community. She questions having stayed a year to work hard to get through to him, and she failed. Jeannie stresses that she may have had an effect that she can't see, and that she did marvelous work honing her capacities. She also acknowledges the work done to bring the perfect teacher projection down to earth. Jeannie acknowledges the additional loss in her not being able to get through to him. In response to his reaching out, Jeannie supports her to put her thoughts and feelings into words, and adds some observations about responsibility and owning harm.

Exchange 2: Participant's mother has just passed, and she is feeling nervous about being on. Jeannie empowers her to switch her screen off for self support. She supports participant to feel beauty of the fullness, love and loss that she is experiencing. 

Exchange 3: Participant is finding that grief and joy are inextricably entwined in him. Jeannie talks about the single door to the heart out of which both grief and love pour.

Exchange 4: Jeannie acknowledges a new participant and gives her permission to be with her in the greeting and wherever she finds herself. Participant feels she carries overwhelming undigested grief from her lifetime. Jeannie names trauma and the need for extra special care and skilled spaceholding. Jeanne encourages her to find a trauma resolution specialist.

Exchange 5: Splitting with her wife, participant feels unable to love anyone again in a personal way, but feels her capacity for love has grown. She asks if this is undigested grief or spiritual evolution, to which Jeannie replies: "Yes." Jeannie talks about the paradox of the personal and impersonal dimensions and their ultimate wedding.