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How I arrived at my gift

It has been a long journey to validate my own grief and attend to it.

The result has been to arrive at a place where I feel aligned with my strengths and how I can offer them to my community. Please see the Prezi presentation if you would like more detail about my own path.

MY APPROACH

Make space to feel grief and tend to the insights that come with it.

No judgement. What we we feel cannot be right or wrong- what we feel is a soul message. Soul messages help us find our path.

It can be messy to express what we feel- especially the feelings that are not acceptable to society. But in expressing all feelings, we release their hold over us. Feelings are not frozen, not part of our identity forever. The more we tend to our feelings, the more we can find the message in them and take actions that cultivate life for us and our community.

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From the Soul Work Report

Poem for my Longtime Friend Drifting Away

A Poem for my Longtime Friend Drifting Away, Read Under a Starry Night

December 27, 20241 min read

Poem for my longtime friend drifting away, read under a starry night

I am a friend who will show up and build your flatpacked furniture, make fancy smoothies, and listen, and talk about our insights and struggles and stories for hours, like time doesn't exist.

You are too.

I've been on an inward spiral for 5 years? Which is good for personal reflection, but not good for connecting and taking bold steps in the world.

I choose stars like you as friends to shine together and to be reference points in this infinite cosmos. To help know who I am in each iteration of myself and navigate nourishing paths in this life.

Yet every constellation shifts over time.

Our formations that lit up the sky as we moved in synchronicity all these years were beautiful. Thank you. I love you always. I am grateful.

And lately, perhaps I've inconsiderately grasped onto your and my past celestial positions. In uncertainty, I'm looking for still points to anchor to.

The still point I seek can only be the divine in me.

So, shine on!

I will shine on too!

I'm tending to my fire and inner fusions, grateful and present for the new constellations taking shape as we all incrementally hurtle forward on our star paths.

12/27/24, by Helen Blodgett

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Helen Blodgett

Helen Dos Santos is a Minneapolis-based artist, writer, mother, and the founder of the Mourning Together grief support community. After working as a teaching artist in NYC public schools for 11 years and continually leading creative collaborations, her writing focuses on building the communities we need for collective wellbeing. Helen has a BA from Grinnell College and an MBA from Walden University, but her favorite tagline was given by Dawn Ewing of Project Morry, “Helen has no box to think outside.”

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When I grieve I am surrounded by family reassuring me that the grieving is worthwhile and I can grieve as much as I want. We experience conflicts, loved ones die or suffer, dreams never manifest, illnesses occur, relationships break up, and there are unexpected natural disasters. It is so important to have ways to release those pains to keep clearing ourselves. Hanging on to old pain just makes it grow until it smothers our creativity, our joy, and our ability to connect with others. It may even kill us. Often my community uses grief rituals to heal wounds and open us to spirit’s call.

- Sobonfu Somé

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