I am the love in

My favorite writing prompt for the feels

One of my inspirational writers is Amy Wright Glenn. She created The Institute for the Study of Birth Breath and Death. Her books Birth Breath and Death and Holding Space inform so much of my work as a companion for loss, grief, and death. Currently I’m enjoying my third year in The Institute’s Self Care Circle. We meet on Zoom once a month and have a different monthly focus we explore. I love this group and the things I find out about myself.

One of the practices I have found so meaningful is identifying a feeling and finding where it resides in my body. The form is “I am the ___ in your___, and this is what I want you to know.” It might be “I am the Sadness in your Neck..” when I scan the feeling and find where it resides, I write down what it tells me. This month we talked about love. What came out as I wrote “I am the love in your body, and this is what I want you to know…” surprised me and I want to share it here.

Carole, I am the Love in your body, and this is what I want you to know. All of me is all of you. You are made of Love. The way you live is Loving and Love-ing. The other stuff is secondary, tertiary, fleeting. The connective tissue of who you are in the world and in your heart is Love. The love you give, the love you send, the love you pray is the essence, is All of you. You are Love.

Where does Love reside in your body? Where does Grief makes its home? How about the Joy? Let’s explore!