Tag: grief

Grieve, ground, imagine, strategize

For anybody who needs support to stop spiralling these days, here is my current favourite active meditation practice for lefties. Kristianna Smith aka Mocha Einstein offers “Grieve, Ground, Imagine, Strategize”. Gently redirect that anxiety spiral into forward momentum.

I appreciate that you can do longer or shorter versions of this. I appreciate that it is oriented towards organizing and strategizing, without ignoring or bottling up the pain and grief. Organizing and strategizing are so good for mental and community health! But skipping over grief leads to bad organizing. The combo is much better.

I appreciate having a structured, somatic activity to move through a little bit of grief at a time. Keep things moving. I appreciate having directions for moving forward instead of spiraling. It is much easier to do “something else” rather than “stop”.

Not sure Kristianna would call themself a witch, but this is also some really solid time magic for any interested witches.

Something that helped me to process a divorce and then later to transition into long covid and disability life is a dance theatre performance I saw in 2016. I mention this because it is streaming on Marquee.

It’s about trauma and grief, so use your judgement. But even now i exhale so much tension when I remember that second half, how the giant pillar is still there on stage.