Holding Grief And Love Together

This meditation is for those navigating loss without rushing healing or abandoning love. It invites you to remain present with grief while recognizing that love continues, even as its form changes. Rather than resolving pain, this practice offers steady companionship with what is real—honoring both sorrow and the living qualities of love that remain within you.

A gentle space to breathe, feel, and continue with integrity.

Formerly titled: Loving Through Grief Meditation

Transcript

This meditation is for staying connected to love without denying loss.

We're not here to fix anything,

And we're not rushing moving on.

We're simply invited to stay present.

Begin by settling your body.

Let your weight be held by the surface beneath you.

Notice where your body makes contact.

Feet,

Legs,

Back,

Hands.

Allow your breath to arrive naturally.

No correction needed.

No forcing.

Grief often asks us to choose to hold love or feel pain.

This practice invites something truer to let love and grief exist at the same time.

Bring to mind a person,

Relationship,

Or chapter you are grieving.

Not all the details,

Just the felt sense of what has been lost.

Notice what happens in your body and honor it.

Whether it's heavy,

Tight,

Achy,

Or warm,

Let the sensations be exactly as they are.

Grief does not need permission to be here.

Now gently shift your attention to the quality of love that remains,

Whether it's memory or longing.

Honor the living current of love itself.

Ask quietly within,

What did I love?

Was it care?

Devotion?

Tenderness?

Shared presence?

Perhaps protection?

Now bring these qualities alive within yourself.

As they did not leave with what was lost.

Let your breath move through the place where grief is held.

Perhaps it'll soften.

Perhaps it'll release.

For now,

Just accompany it.

You may sense that grief is not the opposite of love.

It's love continuing in a new form.

Let me repeat that.

You might sense that grief is not the opposite of love.

It is love continuing in a new form.

If it feels right,

Place a hand on your heart or chest.

Feel the steadiness beneath the ache,

The heartbeat of your soul.

You are not breaking.

You are adjusting to truth.

Silently say,

I allow love to remain even now.

I do not betray what was by continuing to live.

Rest here for a few breaths.

Let grief be honest.

Let love be spacious.

When you're ready,

Begin to notice the room around you,

The sounds,

The light,

The simple fact of being here.

Take one final slow breath in and release it fully.

Thank you for practicing with me today.

May you trust that love does not end and allow it to change its shape.