— When loss is so deep it can freeze us. Grief and loss make it hard for us to immediately absorb everything that has happened. So we are a bit like deer in headlights; behaving in unexpected ways or shutting down entirely.
Shutting down has such a bad reputation and it's true you don't want it to go on indefinitely. But it has allowed me to take a moment and regroup. It reminds me of the moment when ice arrives for the first time in the winter. Those who live with that reality know you need to take a moment of pause to re-calibrate walking and driving. Business as usual stops with ice!
Ice keeps the reality of our vulnerability very much alive. It makes us come alive in our attention and feeling so we don't hurt ourselves navigating it. Like ice, grief makes us very aware of how vulnerable we are. Like ice, we have to approach our grief consciously, with all of our attention so it doesn't engulf us or take us away from the warmth of our lives. Doing so can make us strangely fully alive.
Valeria Teles interviews Donna Brooks — a Somatic Movement Educator and Therapist, Yogi, And Embodied Meditator, Counselor And Coaching In Movement And The Healing Arts
Donna brooks has 40 years experience in unwinding limiting and painful habits in the body and in the mind using conscious movement. Her specialty is in using imagery to rediscover movements of innate health and balance. As these movements are uncovered we feel more alive. There is more ease and a loss of tension and pain in our bodies and our lives. We also meet the suffering and loss inherent in life differently.
Donna has designed and taught programs for Parkinson’s Disease, MS, cancer, stroke and chronic pain. If you go to her website - Original Body Wisdom.com you can read about her own losses and recovery. Currently, she is working on embodied recovery from the sudden and unexpected death of her adult son.
To learn more about Donna Brooks and her work, please visit: https://www.originalbodywisdom.com/
— This podcast is a quest for well-being, a quest for a meaningful life through the exploration of fundamental truths, enlightening ideas, insights on physical, mental, and spiritual health. The inspiration is Love. The aspiration is to awaken new ways of thinking that can lead us to a new way of being, being well.
