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AmarAtma Singh Khalsa
Unprocessed emotions bury themselves deep within the body. New research on the mind-body continuum shows that our grieving journey also needs to include body practices.
Carrying Love Forward: A Workshop for Widows
A circle for widows to explore grief, ritual and identity, and to carry their love forward while learning to live again. Led by artist and widow Jayashri Triolo.
A resource by Jayashri Triolo
Carrying Love Forward is an intimate, participatory workshop for widows. It is not a lecture and not therapy. It is a circle.
I open with a short piece of my own story: 27 years with my husband Steve, his five years with cancer, his last breath, and the long, unexpected road back to life. Then the room turns to you. Through guided journaling, quiet reflection and voluntary sharing, we sit with a few questions:
- What else am I grieving?
- What gives my love somewhere to go?
- Who am I now?
- What am I giving myself permission to want?
- What am I carrying forward?
No one is asked to share more than she wants to. Silence, tears and laughter are all welcome. There is no right way to grieve, and nothing here will tell you how.
You will leave with your own words on the page, one small way to honor your love when you go home, and the reminder that love doesn't end. It changes form.
Available as a 60, 75 or 90 minute session, online or in person.
Learn more: https://kavachadesigns.com
My Inspiration
When my husband Steve died, I looked for a widow support group and couldn't find one that felt like what I needed. I mostly slept, cried, chanted, and Googled death.
What brought me back was small. My twelve-year-old daughter told me I had to get up and make her breakfast every day. My spiritual teacher gave me a daily offering to make for Steve and carry to the creek. For the first time, my love had somewhere to go.
Later came his ashes in the Ganges, his garden, my paintings, a motorcycle, and eventually the courage to love again. None of it meant leaving Steve behind.
I created this circle for the woman I was in those first weeks: to give other widows room to tell the truth, find their own rituals, and remember there is still a woman here, and she is still becoming.
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