{"id":23831,"date":"2025-02-25T08:00:48","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T15:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/resources2.soundstrue.com\/?post_type=podcast&p=23831"},"modified":"2025-02-21T11:30:23","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T18:30:23","slug":"francis-weller-our-apprenticeship-with-sorrow","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/resources2.soundstrue.com\/podcast\/francis-weller-our-apprenticeship-with-sorrow\/","title":{"rendered":"Francis Weller: Our Apprenticeship with Sorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"

Right now, we may be surrounded by grief, anxiety, fear, and uncertainty. But we don\u2019t have to drown in our sorrows or deny the painful realities of these trying times. In this podcast, join Tami Simon in dialogue with psychotherapist, bestselling author, and \u201csoul activist\u201d Francis Weller to explore a new and empowering approach to grief\u2014one that is essential for both our personal well-being and our capacity to be of service to others.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Listen now to a much-needed conversation about the attitudes and skills involved in \u201can apprenticeship with grief,\u201d including: how grief softens and opens the heart; metabolizing grief, and the choice to engage instead of endure; how to \u201coffer a bottom\u201d to your grief to mitigate feelings of anxiety or panic; the energy of melancholy; relinquishing our culture\u2019s heroic ideal; containment and release\u2014the two requirements of grief; navigating \u201cthe long dark\u201d of our times; getting into \u201cvillage mind\u201d and embracing a communal approach to grief; breaking the pattern of denial; how grief work brings you more fully into the present moment; waking up from \u201cthe amnesia and the anesthesia\u201d; being an adult in your relationship to grief; simple rituals you can explore to engage grief with deeper intention and meaning; attuning to the rhythm of \u201cthe archaic psyche\u201d; our soul responsibility\u2014to register the losses of the world; ancestral grief; patience; the elements of soulful living; the invocation of courage and faith; and more.<\/span><\/p>\n

Note: This episode originally aired on Sounds True One, where these special episodes of <\/span>Insights at the Edge<\/span><\/i> are available to watch live on video and with exclusive access to Q&As with our guests. Learn more at join.soundstrue.com<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":23832,"template":"","meta":{"_expiration-date-status":"","_expiration-date":0,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[]},"categories":[385],"tags":[170],"contributor":[1145],"class_list":["post-23831","podcast","type-podcast","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-psychology","tag-insights-at-the-edge","contributor-francis-weller"],"yoast_head":"\nFrancis Weller Our Apprenticeship With Sorrow | Insights at the Edge<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Listen to this Insights at the Edge podcast exploring francis weller our apprenticeship with sorrow. 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