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GRIEF AND LIGHT @griefandlight.bsky.social · Feb 7

We offer loving witnessing, embodied presence, and the gift in non-judgmental listening.

Healing is a softening into the honesty of what is.

These intentional circles serve as the sacred containers for this unfolding.

Grateful.

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GRIEF AND LIGHT @griefandlight.bsky.social · Feb 7

Each month, we hold a virtual grief tending circle to hold sacred space for grievers to come undone. To unmask. To relax into the most honesty of their grief.

The one for February just concluded, and I was reminded how powerful and necessary these spaces are.

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GRIEF AND LIGHT @griefandlight.bsky.social · Feb 5

Yes? 👍 Please SUBSCRIBE to the @griefandlight wherever you get your podcasts. 💜

This helps us grow and reach the people in need of these conversations as soon as they need them.

Can I count on you to do that?

Awesome! Forever grateful.

griefandlight.com/podcast

We’re in this together.

💜
Nina

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GRIEF AND LIGHT @griefandlight.bsky.social · Feb 5

non-death related losses, how everyday grief impacts por lives, and how we can show up meaningfully in collective grief.

Each episode will feed your mind and nourish your soul. ✨

Can I ask you to do something? ⤵️

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GRIEF AND LIGHT @griefandlight.bsky.social · Feb 5

🎙️ NEW SEASON ALERT 🎉

Feeling griefy? I got you. 😉

Season 4 of the #GriefandLightPodcast launches 🚀 TOMORROW (Feb. 6th) 🎉

Featuring both solo episodes and interviews with fabulous thought leaders in the grief space, this season will also address ⤵️

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GRIEF AND LIGHT @griefandlight.bsky.social · Feb 3

The door is open for you: grief-and-light-community.mn.co/share/Cf2lBE...

GRIEF AND LIGHT @griefandlight.bsky.social · Feb 3

We’re living through times where leaning into community, both in person and virtually, is paramount to navigating uncertainty.

This is even more relevant if you’ve just experienced a loss.

That’s why I created The Community by Grief and Light—a virtual home for grievers.

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Nikita Gill @nikitagill.bsky.social · Feb 2

Hope is never futile - it is one of the greatest forms of resistance we have.

Hope sits in the trenches, the last one standing, its teeth cracked, its knuckles bruised, its body broken;
but its eyes are still gleaming with the light of a million lamps.
Its heart is still beating because even here, even now,
it knows that a better world is worth fighting for.
- Nikita Gill

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GRIEF AND LIGHT @griefandlight.bsky.social · Feb 2

I don’t know who needs this message today, but …

“Shame prevents healing. The conditions that make shame grow, as Brown describes in ATLAS OF THE HEART, are secrecy, silence, and judgment. Empathy is the most important quality for interrupting shame.” — Lisa Keefauver, GRIEF IS A SNEAKY BITCH 📖

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GRIEF AND LIGHT @griefandlight.bsky.social · Jan 29

My heart is so full.

Thank you, universe.

More of this, please!

We’re in this together.
💜
Nina

GRIEF AND LIGHT @griefandlight.bsky.social · Jan 29

This is how we get to carry their love light forward.

This is how we get to love them now that they’re gone.

This is how we evolve the public discourse around grief and loss.

This is how we move forward.

This is how we create a life worth living.

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GRIEF AND LIGHT @griefandlight.bsky.social · Jan 29

I’m grateful for these beautiful souls, for the space created by the @globalresiliencecommunity to share our stories in the form of an anthology, and for the opportunity to hug each other and celebrate in person! Seeing our faces on a billboard in Times Square was the confetti ✨

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GRIEF AND LIGHT @griefandlight.bsky.social · Jan 29

That’s not an option. AND we’re incredibly grateful for these friendships forged by both grief, and our new-found joy.

As I always say, grief is not this OR that; it’s this AND that. It’s living in the both/and of life as we integrate the vastness of the human experience as it is.

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GRIEF AND LIGHT @griefandlight.bsky.social · Jan 29

some of the wonderful souls with whom I’ve connected in the grief space, this time IRL in NYC to celebrate the launch of our co-authored book, RESILIENT A.F.🗽

It’s a layered reality to process—we wouldn’t have met if our people hadn’t died. We would do anything to get them back.

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GRIEF AND LIGHT @griefandlight.bsky.social · Jan 29

The bittersweet reality of grief is that some of the most beautiful moments in my life have been forged in the aftermath of losing my only sibling, the witness to my life, my beloved brother, Yosef.

This weekend was the light in #griefandlight as I got to meet ⬇️

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GRIEF AND LIGHT @griefandlight.bsky.social · Jan 22

How have grief and loss impacted your sense of meaning and purpose?

Take our self assessment to know where you stand here: grief-and-light-community.mn.co/share/Cf2lBE...

(Go to the “Resources” section)

#griefsupport #griefcommunity #griefandlight #griefandloss

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Maya Contreras @mayatcontreras.bsky.social · Jan 21

Great advice from @mspackyetti.bsky.social

Please remember the goal is for us to be overwhelmed and perpetually distracted. They want us to react to everything while they pelt us nonstop. Resist the urge to do scroll. I feel like you have to boil the ocean. You have gifts, interest, talents, and expertise that can be targeted and focused. Do your work. Don’t leave it to somebody else. I don’t try to do it all at once. Do the right thing. We’ll get through this as long as we do it together. I love y’all.

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GRIEF AND LIGHT @griefandlight.bsky.social · Jan 22

Hannah Arendt: “The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism.”

GRIEF AND LIGHT @griefandlight.bsky.social · Jan 20

A tighter translation of the original, according to a footnote in this essay, would be “

…in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.”

contraptions.venkateshrao.com/p/the-gramsc...

The Gramsci Gap

System emergence in monstrously morbid interregnums between worlds

contraptions.venkateshrao.com

GRIEF AND LIGHT @griefandlight.bsky.social · Jan 20

“You’ve probably heard some version of the Gramsci quote

“𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘭𝘥 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥 𝘪𝘴 𝘥𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘯𝘦𝘸 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘨𝘨𝘭𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘣𝘰𝘳𝘯. 𝘕𝘰𝘸 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴."

The line is generally attributed to Antonio Gramsci, but this particular version is actually a loose translation by Slavoj Žižek.

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GRIEF AND LIGHT @griefandlight.bsky.social · Jan 19

TT will be back w/i a week or so.

Meta likely bought it and/or will have significant control over its data.

It will become one of the most powerful propaganda arms of the incoming administration.

It's not about an app.

It's about government overreach and control.

GRIEF AND LIGHT @griefandlight.bsky.social · Jan 18

By validating our own grief we validate it for others in our beliefs, actions, and words.

Have you ever felt that your grief was invalidated? Let me know in the comments.

💜 Nina

GRIEF AND LIGHT @griefandlight.bsky.social · Jan 18

If 10, 20, 40 years down the line you still feel a pang of grief, a wave, like missing them on their birthday, or while doing that activity they loved, or in the quiet moments—it’s all valid.

The heart and body often remember what the mind may have stored away.

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GRIEF AND LIGHT @griefandlight.bsky.social · Jan 18

“out of nowhere” after they thought they had “finished grieving”.

Truth is that loss changed us profoundly in ways known and yet known.

Although the frequency and intensity may subside with time, there is a part that remains latent and does not abide by the rules of linear time.

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GRIEF AND LIGHT @griefandlight.bsky.social · Jan 18

Whether the pressure to ‘move on’ comes from others, or from ruminating thoughts, I’m here to remind you that your grief is valid no matter how many years have passed since the loss.

Many grievers are taken aback when their grief unexpectedly arises seemingly

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