Satir workshops

Humans easily bond with people, land, rituals, memes, and many other "things". And as many connections are made, as many connections are broken too. It's (our) Nature. And Nature also provides us with effective ways for healing ourselves from broken connections so we can make new connections. That is, if we know how, and if we do not block our grief. Besides personal factors, environmental factors, like having to keep working to pay our bills to keep our shelter and have food, can also hinder or block healthy grief. When we block grief, we can experience significant psychological, physical, and relational problems.

Not too many people allow themselves, or can afford to do healthy grieving, even less people have learned how to evolve grief-proof relationships and families, and it's only a rare few that know why and how to detect and release blocked grief (Yes, this is a conscious challenge).

??? Healthy grieving ???
? What does that look like ?

Seven key ingredients can be distinguished for most people:

1. Progress in healing wounds (physically and mentally). Main key. If not present, forget it.
2. Conscious, clear awarenesses of the natural grieving process that is our birth right, of both tangible and invisible losses, and of the effects these losses have on self, life, and others.
3. Confidence in being able to survive our losses and their effects, based on experience and workable knowledge, with a dash of good luck or faith that "I am Okay".
4. Commitment to allowing ourselves, and to finding ways to afford ourselves, healthy grieving as a personal priority. Self-importance is a verrry healthy strategy for this in the Book of Life. We are not to accept blame for applying such self-importance, for that may lead to guilt, ambivalence, and/or anxiety.
5. Consistent inner and outer permission to practice the Satir five freedoms, over and over again. This way, we transform our mental confusion into ideas with increasing clarity and order. And over time, through asking questions, repeated venting, ranting and raving, discussions, and meditating, we find our silence once more.
6. Finding motivation and opportunities to meditate, sort, feel, and work through things.
7. Kairos time, patience with ourselves and others, and all the humor we need as we go through our grieving.

??? And blocked grief ???

Links to more detailed information and resources:
Grief and Loss: Suggestions
Stoic Warriors : Grief

Suggested reading:
The Artist’s Way - A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity, by Julia Cameron and Mark Bryan, G. P. Putnam’s Son’s, New York, NY; 1992. An empowering book focusing on increasing personal creativity, personal recovery and wholeness.