If you experienced any of these events and feelings then grief for past experiences may be affecting your life. In grief, you experience loss, and this is hard to bear. When you have lost someone you love or your health, or the job that pays the bills, how do you carry on? How you do make your life whole when there is a hole at the core? In your loss, your future, dreams and hopes disappear. Instead, a landscape of emptiness appears where what you loved once lived. In grief you lose the vision of what you thought your life would be. The power of grief can stop you in your tracks and you don’t realise that you are still standing in the same place years later. You are unable to move forward while you try to hold on to precious memories of what life was and could have been, or try to protect yourself from the hurt that loss has left behind.

In grief you often have to forgive yourself for words left unsaid and for the choices you made. In the end it is the loss of your sense of self, of what the world was meant to be and who you were within it, that leaves you disoriented. Who were you before your loss took your energy and motivation away?

Like all of life’s experiences, grief is a journey. When the shape of your world has changed, you are being challenged to start on a new path. This is difficult when what you once loved isn’t included on that path, however your life will only become whole when you take the new road. Using the Diamond Process will help you to release your grief and honour the impact of loss on your life. You will be able to re-engage in your life’s journey, embracing all that life has to offer. Understand your grief to restore your connection to the feeling of love.