How can we love fully in the face of inevitable loss? It starts with letting go | Nadine Levy
It’s not easy to accept change, separation and heartbreak. But grief can pave the way for a new form of connection
- Making sense of it is a column about spirituality and how it can be used to navigate everyday life
Early in life I learned that we lose everyone we love. In a matter of months my mother became unwell, I lost two of my closest relatives and my extended family became irreconcilably estranged. What had been a medium-sized family shrunk to a barely recognisable party of two – that is, if my mother pulled though.
During this time I came to understand something that I had been shielded from as a child: relationships were inherently unstable, love would invariably turn to grief and loss was an undeniable fact of life. Indeed, loving and losing were fundamental terms of the human contract to which I was an unknowing signatory.
To live in this world
you must be able
Dr Nadine Levy is a senior lecturer at the Nan Tien Institute. She coordinates its health and social wellbeing program and the graduate certificate in applied mindfulness
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