Pt1: Meet grief with love

In episode 51 of Nathalie Himmelrich’s podcast How To Deal With Grief & Trauma, Fish takes us through how he dealt with his own grief, using the approach of conscious communication with himself: Bringing loving awareness to the whole experience, without wanting to change it, makes every component of the experience matter.

Fish says we are not usually bringing loving awareness, but we are trained to respond to pain by usually dismissing, minimizing, comparing, assigning fault, understanding, or fixing when what it actually needs is validating it.