Grief Changes You
I know that when you lose someone you love, your life changes forever.
When your child or loved one dies you become a different person. Your priorities change. You rethink your life and the meaning of life.
Life and spiritual questions become omnipresent.
trapped in time.
Time stopped when my daughter died. How could the world keep spinning, how could a new day begin and the sun rise and then set without her? This impossible time, this time distortion in grief can leave you feeling trapped in time, feeling alone, completely broken, overwhelmed with guilt, struggling with the day-to-day hopelessness, and wondering if you will ever feel good about living again.
To even want to move forward when you are in grief can feel like a betrayal.
crossing a spiritual threshold.
We will all go through our own ‘dark night of the soul‘, or what I call ‘the Grief Pilgrimage‘. The late Irish poet and philosopher, John O’Donohue, believed that it is important to recognize and acknowledge thresholds, and to feel the emotions that come with them. In my experience, the deeply intimate, sacred journey of grief takes tremendous courage and self-compassion to ‘walk through the valley‘, in crossing this spiritual threshold in your life.
your beloved ~ your guiding light.
I have learned that there is hope, you can transmute your grief and pain into meaning.
With the softening of time, you will create a beautiful life that honours the beautiful light in your beloved ♡
May this dark grief flower with hope
In every heart that loves you.
~ John O’Donohue
Hi, I’m Melissa
I am so honoured that you have somehow found your way here. Although when it comes to grief & healing, I wish we could meet under different circumstances … yet, here we are.
I am here to inspire your way of the Grief Pilgrimage.
We begin with breathing.
Just breathe.
Breathe with your whole heart ♡
Join me on a sacred journey of
breathing, grieving, and healing while
finding your way.
Inspiring your way of the Grief Pilgrimage
finding your way.
If you are reading this, it may be a sign that you are a spiritual seeker, and like me, you have found your path blocked by the dark clouds of grief. Finding your way in grief can feel like a mystery, I have been here, unable to accept what has happened, unable to move forward in your new reality, unable to sleep and ruminating …
How can I possibly accept a future without my beloved?
the Grief Pilgrimage.
You inevitably find yourself on a pilgrimage of sorts, picking up the pieces of your life, while excavating your shattered heart in search of understanding. You are both wandering and wondering aimlessly, without a destination, and spiritually asking yourself …
Who am I?
What am I seeking?
Why is it meaningful?
be inspired.
I know how important it is to receive compassionate presence and guidance from someone who has also walked through their own Grief Pilgrimage, and as a bereaved mother I know this truth deeply.
I created the INSPIRE Courageous Grieving program as a heart centered community and sanctuary for you to receive holistic support, as you connect with and are inspired by fellow grievers, as you share your heart+story with people who understand and “get it“.
You are not alone.
Sharing your grief is an act of love.
I would love to hear your heart+story ♡
Hold my hand my friend and let’s take a small step together …
All the love x
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Melissa Bowers is an Inspirationalist and the founder of Courage My Heart and Grief Yin Yoga, she is a Certified Grief Educator, Meditation & Mindfulness Teacher, Wellbeing Facilitator and bereaved mother, who has hosted programs for Top 100 companies, government, non-profit organizations, and individuals, delivering training to 10,000+ learners globally.
i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
ee cummings
my heart)i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go,my dear;and whatever is done
by only me is your doing,my darling)
i fear
no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true)and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you
here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows higher than soul can hope or mind can hide)and this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart
i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)
Melissa Bowers
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