Resources: Working with Grief and Loss
Resources for Grieving Loss ~
Grieving loss consciously is at the center of the spiritual path. It is soul work — healthy, cleansing, and intelligent. The process allows us to metabolize the pain of loss and continue living. It lets us open to love. By honoring what has passed away, we are free to embrace the life that is here.
Yet grief is so deeply painful, so hard to endure.
A question I am often asked is: How do I find refuge in the midst? What can help me move through the pain of separation?
Below are some resources we hope you’ll find helpful:
Talks on Working with Grief and Loss
Skeleton Woman: Embracing This Living and Dying World
Based on a wonderful myth told by Clarissa Estes, this talk looks at the way we run from “lady death” and the blessings of opening our arms and heart. If we can embrace the whole...
Responding to Change with a Wise Heart
An intrinsic part of spiritual life is facing the truth of impermanence. When we open to the changing flow without resistance, we naturally cherish this passing life, and realize...
Tara Talks: Impermanence of the Body (5:54 min. video)
Aging, sickness and dying are treated as something “bad” to be fought. Truly opening to the reality that every body in the universe continually changes can awaken us to the 'who...
Tara Talks – Opening to Reality Means Full Engagement (not Resignation) (2:31 min.)
Every time our heart gets really broken open by loss, there can be more attunement to what it means to be unconditionally loving. This frees us to act more fully, honestly, true...
River of Change – Part 2 – Bringing a Wise Heart to this Impermanent Life
These two talks look at how we relate to change - especially the notable changes involving loss of relationships and our own body and mind. We examine our strategies for avoiding...
River of Change – Part 1: Bringing a Wise Heart to this Impermanent Life
These two talks look at how we relate to change - especially the notable changes involving loss of relationships and our own body and mind. We examine our strategies for avoiding...
The Reality of Change: Embracing this Living Dying World
"What is it that allows us to open our hearts to every moment of our life? It's the remembrance that it's passing and it's precious." Our true refuge is reality - only by opening...
Tara Talks: What Am I Running From Right Now?
Tara shares a dear friend’s end-of-life insights on how every one of us has something we’re running from. It’s when we start recognizing what we’re resisting that we can re-enter...
Love, and Death (Retreat Talk)
To live our lives fully, we need to embrace the natural unfolding of birthing and dying. Yet we are deeply conditioned to resist loss, to pull away from fear and grief. Through a...
Tara Talks: Keeping Busy (5:04 min. video)
We are sometimes described as "human doings" versus "human beings." In this short presentation we look at how our drive to keep busy and to over-achieve is a way of avoiding...
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