Working with Difficult Emotions

It's time to come together and address the difficult emotions that are a natural outcome of going through recent difficulties, or even just hearing about, or watching the tragedies on the news.

We heal in community. Let's gather to welcome each other, spend a few minutes in a healing practice and then open the floor for sharing about our inner personal experience.

• 12:00 - Welcoming
• 12:10 - Healing Practice (mindfulness/compassion)
• 12:25 - Open sharing (no one will be called on)

All are Welcome - You do not need to have experienced a disaster first hand to have difficult emotions. Come and be a part of the inner renewal. You do not need to be familiar with either mindfulness or compassion practices to participate, these sessions will be welcoming, gentle and appropriate for beginners and experts alike.

Trauma-informed - This event series in trauma informed, which means that I have been trained to guide and hold space for communities and individuals that have experienced trauma. I will hold a compassionate container for sharing and encourage all present to be responsible for their own wellbeing. I will build in flexibility in the practices and the sharing process to allow for everyone to care for themselves as they know best.

Sharing Guidelines - The purpose of sharing is to allow a space for us to work with our difficult emotions, hear about what others are experiencing, and be silently supportive of each other. Sharing is focused on the practice and your experience with the practice and difficult emotions.

• You are responsible to monitoring your internal state
• If a share become too intense, mute, walk a away, comfort yourself
• No one is required to share or to have their camera on
• When sharing about a traumatic experience do not share details, just the big picture to help us understand your emotional state.

Working with Difficult Emotions

• All emotions are valid and welcome
• Emotions can feel static but they actually fluctuate
• Emotions can have a core wisdom

Working with Grief

• There is no wrong way to grieve
• There is not a single path through grief
• There is no timeline for grief
• Many emotions can come up during grief