Be Curious

The Daily Reflection encourages curiosity without judgment. It suggests asking yourself what color your grief is and what you need to feel safe. Pay attention to your emotions and where you feel them in your body. Practice a grounding activity using your five senses. Reflect on how you can validate your needs and meet one of them. The quote from Winnie the Pooh reminds us that saying goodbye is hard because of the depth of our love. Be curious about yourself, comfort yourself, and practice self-soothing. Welcome to the Daily Reflection. Set your intention today to be curious without judgment. Notice, take a deep breath, and practice being curious without judging what you notice when you take that deep breath. Ask yourself, if your grief were a color today, what color would it be? Would it be dull, sharp, or bright, or faded? And what do you need to safely feel your emotions today? What would be helpful, sitting with a book, a movie, a warm, fluffy blanket, wrapping yourself in a light sweater? What do you need to feel safe today? Emotion. How are you feeling today? What are you feeling today? Notice where you are feeling this emotion in your body. Now take a deep breath in, and when you are ready, slow and controlled, exhale. Allow your shoulders to drop, feel your feet upon the floor, notice the seat beneath you. Does the color of your emotion change? Is it the same? Action. Take a moment and do this grounding activity, it's called the five senses. I want you to look around the room and name five objects that you can see. Now name four things that you can touch or feel with your body or your hands. Now name three sounds that you can hear. And wrapping it up, notice two flavors you can taste. If you have water nearby, take a drink, or tea, take a drink. And then end with noticing a smell. Try this exercise with a cup of decaffeinated tea, noticing your five senses, being in the moment. Reflect, how can you validate your needs today? What one need are you able to meet for yourself today? I'm going to read a quote. Just sit with this if you want to write in your journal about it later. How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard. That is a quote from Winnie the Pooh, and so very true with grief. Sometimes the depth of our grief shows the depth of our love. If it's a death loss, a divorce, a breakup, sometimes the pain shows us how deeply we loved. As you wrap up today, be curious about yourself without judgment. Take the emotions that you notice, and give yourself time for some comfort and self-soothing. Thank you for listening today.