Water & Grief | A healing practice

About this episode

Easkey Britton shares insights on the healing power of water in relation to grief and loss, including a practical water ritual.

Hello friends, The morning after the conversation I had with Easkey Britton about the power of WATER for the Element Sessions she emailed me to say that she had woken with a sense she wanted to share a little more with us all around the healing and holding power of water when it comes to grief and loss. She offered to share with us a practical embodiment practice, a water ritual, as a way to honour our loss and express our grief, a way to be with our heartbreak, which has been immense for us as a species this last year and personally for each of us in many different ways. And so a few days later we met again and recorded this beautiful offering. Easkey explores how our relationship with grief is closely associated with ebb, a sense of withdrawing inward, a feeling of emptiness, a sense of murkiness. How neither ebb nor grief are valued or allowed space in our society. How the process of grieving is one of making space for what wants to emerge. She speaks about water as a holding element. As a memory keeper. How so many world myths around loss and death and grief involve water, how today this continues in rituals such as the paddle out ceremonies of surfers and other ocean going…

People in this episode

Host: Layla O'Mara

Guest: Easkey Britton

Topics covered

• grief
• water rituals
• healing practices
• loss
• emotional well-being

Keywords

• water
• grief
• healing
• loss
• ritual
• emotional support
• memory keeper

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