A ritual session of living, letting go and closing
What is this
An immersive, conversational, and interactive session on experiencing, letting go, closing, and accepting reality.
This is one session, and that's its value. There can be no second session, series, or repetition of a session.
Duration: up to 2.5 hours.
In this session with me, douling of transitions, grief and end of life is wonderfully intertwined with psychotherapy, rituals of transition (symbolic actions), visualization, somatic practices.
Why is this?
Our psyche is designed to cope with difficult experiences, even traumatic ones, through grief. But.
Sometimes emotions get stuck. There's no emotional movement, no experiencing, no letting go.
If it is the loss of a loved one, then sometimes it is done to “formalize” the grief, to make the process more physical, to give vent to emotions, to honor the memory of the departed person, to help accept the reality of the loss.
Sometimes something happens too suddenly, and this break freezes. To bring yourself back from the freeze.
Sometimes something old and unprocessed resurfaces. But it still limits our flexibility in free will, makes decisions for us, from past settings, and causes pain. Events unprocessed through grief have no expiration date; it's never too late to close them and reclaim the frozen parts of ourselves we left behind.
What is needed for this?
For this, we need a witness; their grounding gaze and presence will keep the boat afloat. This could be an inner witness, a loved one, or a specialist.
Sometimes we can't lean on loved ones and those who love us because someone needs to hold space for us, support us through difficult experiences, and not crumble or turn away. This doesn't say anything about how good a person is or how much they love us; it's just that there isn't always someone who can hold us.
Why grieve and live through
Grief is given to us so that we can go through crises: to gently sink to the bottom, to pass through the loop of despair, to rise on the pushing force of appropriating experience to acceptance, to close the experience of what happened as our own, as supporting you, and not destroying you.
But I think we're given grief so we can experience everything in this world. The opposite of depression isn't joy, but grief. We need grief to process any situation or feeling, if only to grieve and let go of a certain self-image that prevents us from moving on, from experiencing, from letting go.
Stages of the session
*We will weave the session's design together with you, through the unique language of your symbols, through how exactly you speak with your grief, through things that are dear to you, through memories, through practical rituals of letting go
* During the session, you can release and process any experience related to any loss, any change. Anything that requires processing and release.
*A ritual session for processing loss can be followed, for example, by a massage session with rebozo scarves. They complement each other well. All paths are open. You just need to set out on the journey.
Interesting facts
In ancient cultures, there were professional mourners. Their job was to set the right emotional tone and help others release pent-up pain through collective crying.
Crying acts as a biological painkiller, and it makes you feel better. Besides the psychological explanation, there are also chemical reasons for this. Emotional tears (from sadness or joy, not from onions) contain leucine enkephalin (a natural opioid peptide that acts as a painkiller), oxytocin (leading to a feeling of "light sadness" instead of acute panic), endorphin (reduces anxiety), and other hormones. The nervous system switches to parasympathetic (relaxation) mode, which means muscles relax, and the body prepares for rest and digestion.
Chemically, this cocktail acts on the same receptors as medical analgesics, reducing both physical and mental pain.
Tears are not a sign of weakness, but our body’s built-in first aid kit.
