Grief as the Highest Form of Intelligence: Paula Gasparini-Santos on Trauma, Transformation & Sitting with the Unknown
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Paula Gasparini-Santos discusses how grief can be viewed as a form of intelligence and its transformative potential.
Paula went into "the void," and returned with a question that changed her life: What if grief is actually the highest form of intelligence? In this episode of Grief and Light, I sit down with trauma and grief therapist and artist, Paula Gasparini-Santos, to explore a different way of understanding grief, one where loss becomes a portal, and "the void" transforms us. Paula's work sits at the intersection of trauma therapy and grief, and she brings a framework that honors how intelligent grief ...
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