Every person will experience loss at some time in their life.  In turn, every person will experience grief.  The emotions of grief arrive unbidden and often catch a person off guard.  Therefore, grief is usually judged as a negative experience;  an experience to be toughed out.  And yet, grief is a natural and healthy response to loss.  So how does a person actively grieve the many expected and unexpected losses they encounter throughout their lifetime?  The principles and practices offered in this paper relate to grieving any loss encountered over a life time.  Even so, the timing of this paper relates particularly to the lived experience of the covid-19 pandemic.  Due to the pandemic, societies across the globe have been thrust into a strange and somewhat disorientating time.  Without warning or time to prepare, humanity has endured the many changes that physical distancing has brought into daily life.  With change comes a sense of loss . . . and grief.

the gentle art of conscious grieving