Tapping for Grief

Grief can move through you like a deep, shifting tide — sometimes sharp, sometimes quiet, sometimes so heavy it’s hard to tell where it ends and you begin. It may show up as an ache in the chest, a tightness in the throat, or a hollow space that feels impossibly tender. This compassionate EFT tapping practice helps you honor that pain without having to hold it all at once, giving your body a slow, steady way to soften around the sorrow and make room for moments of breath, warmth, and connection again.

Transcript

In this tapping we're going to explore grief. So I want you to go ahead and take a nice big deep breath in and perhaps closing your eyes just noticing where in your body you're feeling grief. And go ahead and rate that on a scale of 0 to 10, 0 being no disturbance, 10 being the highest. Just where it's feeling right now. And you can open your eyes and we'll begin to tap. Even though I'm feeling this grief in my body, I deeply and completely love and accept myself. Even though I am so aware of this grief in my body, I deeply and completely love and accept myself. Even though this grief feels overwhelming at times, I deeply and completely love and accept myself. So much grief in my body. It feels overwhelming. So much sadness. So much yearning. Feeling this grief in my heart. Feeling this grief in my chest. Thinking about people and situations that I miss. It is hard to miss when I love so much. All of this grief in my body. I wonder if it will ever go away. I worry that I'll never be the same. I'm not who I was before. But I don't yet know who I'm becoming. I allow myself the sadness and tears of grief. Grief exists because I loved. This grief is so heavy in my body. I'm not sure how to go forward and do this without them. It's so hard to let go. It's so hard to trust. I feel the guilt and perhaps the anger and the confusion of grief. I feel the grief move throughout my body. Grief is the price we pay for love. It is okay that I have this sense of loss because this mattered to me. It was worth it even if I'm grieving. Grief is about sadness and also about love. And even though the sadness seems bigger at times, I can be aware of the love. I can honor my grief as a natural part of humanity. And even though it's painful, I know I can do this. I feel the sense of love as a result of the grief. I can handle this emotion in my body. I am open to feeling hope. I am open to feeling peace. I can be connected in my grief. I can honor my grief. I can honor the love involved in grief. It is okay to move forward. Is it okay to honor my grief? I acknowledge and breathe into this grief in my body. Take a nice big deep breath in. Letting that go. Closing your eyes. Tuning back into that sensation of grief in your body. Just locating it again. Being curious about how it might have moved or changed. Go ahead and rate it again. Zero being no, Disturbance to ten being the highest. And you can open your eyes and continue to tap on the topic of grief as needed.