Why is that? Why do we glorify one side of the life cycle and dread the other?

This split, this separation between birth and death, creates a deep conflict within us. I would even venture to say it prevents us from being here fully and discourages us from incarnating completely. At the very least it prevents us from being as present in each moment as we otherwise might be able to be.

This divide in our collective psyche keeps us in denial about the cycles of life and how to honor them, divorcing us from nature and creating medical systems that try to prevent death at all costs.

I truly believe that one of the most important ingredients to heal both our individual and collective trauma is to celebrate the natural cycles and rhythms of life fully. To learn and contemplate more about the sacred transitions of creating form and leaving form. That means that just as we prepare for birth, with ceremonies, rituals, and plans, so too could we honor the process of death with the same reverence, curiosity, and care.

It’s time to mend the split. 

To honor both the beginning and the end. To see these powerful and mysterious components of our lives as intertwined, as they always have been. And through understanding and accepting death we begin to flower, to radiate, and to blossom into more present, more alive, and more grateful for each breath we take.

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