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A crucial read to help navigate the times we're in - how so much of contemporary society has enabled the suppression of authenticity, to the point we're collectively and personally forgetting how to grieve. In spirituality and inner work rhetoric, there can be such an overwhelming polarity between "light" and "dark" that it minimizes the power and potency of sitting with the mysterious and difficult truths that make a journey healing to begin with.

I appreciate how this book provides encouragement and resources for release and remembrance of this deeper grief work. In this, there are pathways and tools to show us how we can welcome the darkness that is all too often banished, giving it a chance to reveal its surprising gifts for our lives. And maybe even for our communities.

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emotional hopeful informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

I learned so much from this book about how to collectively hold and process our grief. The writing was beautiful. Felt like I highlighted every other paragraph!

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5.0

Stunningly beautiful language. This book hit the perfect balance for me of metaphorical and practical, with poetic descriptions of grief and actual rituals to do. I can see this being a regular re-read.