Mia on why people resist sharing grief in groups, and why she runs group gatherings anyway.
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- Grief Dinner Parties
Mia's first pilot of grief support groups: hosting dinners in her West Point Grey home where people cook, eat and share their innermost pain, because 'we heal in a field of connection' and…
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If it's an end, and there we are not quite certain about this end, because there are these peculiar faculties of the psyche, that it isn't entirely confined to space and time. You can have dreams or visions of the future, you can see round corners and such things. Only ignorance denies these facts.
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid.
I look at grief as almost a shadow of love, like love's shadow or love's ghost. And just as love is its own unique thumbprint, I guess so is grief, because it's just that reflection.
The best thing that a teacher can do, that has been shared before, these are not my words obviously, is just to lead the student back to themselves.
Curiosity is an ascension from depression. Even if you just have the motivation for one more breath or one more moment, that's better than just being like, I want to end it all.
Closure is kind of an illusion, which is a terrible thing to say to some people, but closure is really an illusion. What people are really seeking with closure is the power within to just say, okay, enough, I'm done, I'm putting that to bed.