SweetSpot Arts

Prayer Patches! My newest thing. Repairing the world with love. One patch at a time. 💖

Onto new adventures…💖 I’ll be writing more on this over time. Loss is the most painful of human experience and most people avoid it at all costs. Until someone dies, and then it’s hard to ignore. However, The idea that the grieving process applies only to death is limited. All change, without exception, no matter how small or seemingly insignificant or normal, comes with a sense of loss. When that pain is not acknowledged and honoured, it compounds. Imagine how life would be different for you and how differently you would move in the world if you had the skill and capacity to not only honour and process your own grief as it comes, but to hold safe space for others. Our society is crippled by the compounded pain of loss and we are grossly unaware of its negative effects. Grieving is the natural process by which we move through the complexity of loss of any kind. Think of divorce; Change of career; Kids leaving home; Sudden changes in health, relationship status or location. Death of a loved one. The list is endless when you stop to acknowledge that change is constant from the moment we are born. All of it, all change, even when something good comes, by very definition requires letting go of something—a goal, a life stage, our identity, status or person (to name bit a few). Loss is loss And it hurts. And that’s natural. And this changes us. It’s inevitable that we are remade in the wake of loss. We can stay unconscious and let the compounded pain build up and shape our self identity and experience or we can choose to consciously engage with grieving and purposely participate in our own metamorphosis. I am a very big proponent of the latter. Xo 😘