Grief Is A Resting Place
Grief Is a Resting Place
When experiencing loss and processing grief, there is a need for a resting place.
A place that receives with patience, holds emotional space, and offers relief. A resting place is a place without the expectation of having to move, perform, or engage in a certain way.
Space requires energy and effort.
Carrying the space for feeling, thinking, and being asks a great deal of us when grieving and experiencing loss. Walking with grief and carrying loss can deplete emotional reserves on most days, leaving little space to recoup and restore.
Some days, there are pockets of moments. Sunshine casts through the cloudy haze. These are cherished moments because the process of grieving and carrying loss requires much.
That muchness is the tiredness, exhaustion, weariness, and detachment from the everyday.
The everyday demands things, and things often offer more pressure than presence.
A Place to Rest
Imagine a garden. A creekside, pond, meadow, or backway trail.
Both in heart and in actual space.
Picture a place that cultivates, nourishes, and works in seasons. The resting place receives emotional experience without expectation and, through its holding presence, offers comfort, refuge, and relief.
Return to the resting place.
What is sown in a season of grief and loss?
At times, it may seem like nothing.
Yet blossoms emerge in spring, just as growth lies dormant in winter. There is the fullness and ripeness of summer and the grace of transition in fall.
Nature teaches that cycles come and go, and so do the experiences and seasons of grief and loss.
The way forward may not always be movement.
Sometimes the way is rest.
Sometimes the way is making peace with resting, especially when feeling the muchness of grief in a tender season or when grief returns in another season altogether.
Receiving Rest
To be still and to be without reserve.
Take refuge in a resting place and allow yourself to be received when you need to go there.
Grief is not always asking us to do more. Sometimes it asks us to pause, listen, and tend to what is present. In art therapy, creating space for reflection and expression can become part of that resting place. Through creative expression, individuals can explore grief and loss at their own pace, without pressure to have answers or move through the process in a particular way.
Art Therapy for Grief and Loss in Gaithersburg, Maryland
Rest can become a refuge during seasons of grief, overwhelm, and uncertainty. You do not have to carry everything alone or hold yourself together without support.
The 3 Brushes offers grief-informed art therapy services for children, teens, and adults in Gaithersburg, Maryland. Art therapy can provide a compassionate space to process grief and loss, explore emotions, reconnect with yourself, and find moments of rest within the healing process.
Learn more about:
• Art Therapy for Grief and Loss
• Art Therapy for Children & Tweens
If you are curious about how art therapy may support you, I invite you to schedule a complimentary 20-minute consultation to explore whether this approach feels like a good fit.
When words are not enough, support is still possible.
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