Honoring Grief For Someone Who Is Still Living

When we grieve the loss of a relationship with someone who is still living, there can be feelings of incompleteness and lack of closure. Offering ourselves space to honor the pain we are feeling helps us to release clinging and resistance, and opens the door to self-compassion and understanding our heart's deepest needs.

This meditation was written specifically for grief of a person who is still living, but this process applies to honoring grief of all kinds. Feel free to change the wording in your mind to support your individual grieving process, whatever that may be.

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Amazing and beautiful acknowledgement of this kind of grief. You have helped me a lot! Thank you so much xoxoxo

Thank you for sharing these essential reflection that even in the face of grief there is so much room for love. This short meditation gives one permission to be with what is- I am the caretaker for my elderly father who will be departing this amazing world soon and this meditation gave me solace. Thank you.

Thank you, a very helpful meditation to help that tender part of my hurting heart. ❤️‍🩹

I stumbled on this meditation this morning. Yesterday I had just spoken to a longtime friend about someone we both deeply care for and have loved for at least 30 years, who is being lost to us and to himself through Louis Body dementia. he was not just a friend but had originally been my Akedo Sensai, someone who has changed so many lives including mine. I live 2000 km away – I can no longer phone him or reach him directly, let alone hug him. I am sad that I cannoti n some way tangible to him comfort him and I am deeply pained by the loss of this beautiful human being who is still alive, bbut in a way that I don’t understand. Thank you for this meditation it has been very helpful in opening the door to a way forward. I don’t know the answers yet but at least I’ve been able to ask the questions.

This was exactly what I needed today. What a true blessing this mediation and you are. Empty nesting is a new challenge in my life.