My closest friend and I used to have this beautiful practice of walking and talking through everything together, but since her miscarriage six months ago, she says spiritual conversation feels like salt in the wound while I can't stop seeing God in everything, even the pain. I don't know how to be present with her suffering without abandoning what's sustaining me.
More people experience this than they realize.
A friendship is strained by the gap between one person's need to find spiritual meaning in loss and another's need to exist without that framework during acute grief.
“Where Are You with Grief as spiritual practice?”
Peri can explain why this happens, help you decide if this is the right situation for you, and point toward the right journey or coach.
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.