Healing became a job I didn’t remember applying for but felt responsible to do well, really well, all the time. And I began to see the theatre in it all; that I wasn’t just “healing,” I was performing to earn worth and safety. 

Surrender is an act of strength, not weakness. It’s about having the courage to say, This is what’s happening. This is what is real right now. And I’m going to meet it as it is, not as I wish it were.

By observing other death cultures, we realize that our relationship to death is culturally-relative and that there’s room to explore.