The Unexpected Gifts of Loss and Grief

Lately, I’ve been reflecting on how certain emotions can feel like companions—uninvited ones that show up and stay longer than expected. As a Life and Leadership Coach, I help my clients build the awareness, courage, and skill to sit with their difficult emotions without buffering through the countless distractions available to us—overdrinking, overeating, overworking, porn, social media and every high-achieving person’s favorite go to; toxic productivity. We buffer because we are afraid that if we allow ourselves to feel difficult emotions fully, we’ll be swallowed by them and unable to return to the rhythms of daily life. Buffering—our attempt to keep undesirable emotions at bay—may seem like a good idea at first, but the cost is far too high!