“Grief can come in all forms of different emotions and expressions. And so we express it in the community, right? You can do it by yourself, but I think it's cool to do it with a friend or in the community because then you witness each other. And that's the ancestral way we're supposed to grieve together and not get freaked out about me screaming and losing my… if you're weeping and screaming, people are coming like, oh, get your s**t together.”
Gris Alves is a Mindfulness Teacher, Thanatologist, Integrated Recovery and Healing Guide, Earth Based Ceremonialist and Trauma-Informed 500HR RYT Yoga Teacher; Host of The Tales of Recovery bi-lingual podcast, and currently training in Gabor Mate's Compassionate Inquiry Therapy Process. She has been leading humans in spiritual, health, and addiction recovery programs for over 27 years. Helping others process trauma, embody and ritualize grief, deconstruct and release limiting beliefs that stem from the social conditioning and programming that hinder our integrated well-being.
In this episode, Gris shares her personal journey in walking with her mother through the end of her life. Even as someone who had formally studied death and grief, she shares that the experience of companioning her mother through this portal was still challenging and also heartbreakingly beautiful.
Learn more about Gris Alves at grisalves.com.
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