livingrief - a short-form series: Recent Episodes
Abby McGovern
In life, we all experience different forms of grief. What is this age-old term? What is this complex and colourful concept? Where does it start and end? And how are we ever to make sense of it, even more, learn to live with it?
Livingrief is a series of short-term spoken word pieces, that aim to navigate concepts and experiences in grief. I seek to broaden the hurdles, pains and challenges out on what it means to experience extreme loss. Together let’s dive into the concepts of the grief cycle and question the different stages, phrases about how and where we attach.
negotiation with your past brings your present situation out of focus. You have undergone a long voyage and crashed at sea. Washed up, battered and bashed, you have lost your ship ☾
Your mind retreats into ruminations of what-ifs. What could I have done differently? What if I could have changed the outcome? For starters, it is so important to sit with these thoughts and to let them flow ☾
This mode of thought is a really invaluable part of your growth. Of challenging the ways that we are, questioning our actions and how they have knock on effects to the world around us ☾
Join me, for reflections on bargaining in your healing journey at livingrief today.
Anger in grief is a very complex emotion that takes time to navigate.
It takes experience and patience with the self to truly understand your personal boundaries and how to communicate them. When we are in a state of anger and anguish we are so emotive and clouded by judgement that we so much broiling away under the surface - we can’t even begin to imagine.
I would like to conceptually position anger, as a blockage in our system, its a lesion in our flow. This stage is something that causes real physical pain and disconnect, ultimately shutting out our ability to connect with the loss, from the person, the place, the thing.
Join me for a discussion on anger in grief at livingrief today.
Being in-denial is a fundamental & funky state of grief in which our bodies and minds shut away our current reality in order to cope. When we enter a state of shock, we tend to project this emotion and stage out onto people, things and situations to make sense of how and why.
It is really important to sit and be kind to ourselves and to acknowledge that this is a challenging part of the stages. It’s okay if there are days when you refuse to believe what has happened or moments where you are in disbelief of the loss you are experiencing.
Join me to reflect and to think through this initial stage of the grief cycle, what it means for your healing journey and how we can map through it, together.
Credits to Peter Sandberg for his mindful composition, Motion, which features as the musical backdrop.
In life, we all experience different forms of grief. What is this age-old term? What is this complex and colourful concept? Where does it start and end? And how are we ever to make sense of it, even more, learn to live with it?
Livingrief is a series of short-term spoken word pieces, that aim to navigate concepts and experiences in grief. I seek to broaden the hurdles, pains and challenges out on what it means to experience extreme loss. Together let’s dive into the concepts of the grief cycle and question the different stages, phrases about how and where we attach.
I hope that these reflections will not only bring you a sense of accomplishment in your healing journey but also take you to that headspace where we are all a living and breathing embodiment of this candlelit living grief, together.
Credits to Peter Sandberg for his mindful composition, Motion, which features as the musical backdrop.