Introducing The Grieving Body

The Grieving Body was named to illuminate grief that has gone unaddressed within the Body of Christ—and the way that same unaddressed grief exists within the fullness of the human experience.

Grief is often only contextualized as the loss of a person.

But grief exists wherever there has been loss.

Loss of people.Loss of relationships.Loss of what was hoped for.Loss of identity, direction, or capacity.

Many live with these experiences without recognizing them as grief.

Within Christian spaces, grief is often misunderstood.

It is avoided, minimized, over-spiritualized, and expected to be resolved.

As a result, grief is often bypassed.Individuals—particularly Christians—experience internal conflict between what they genuinely feel and what they believe they are expected to feel.

When grief remains untended, it can lead to further harm in how a person processes their pain.

The Grieving Body exists to name this clearly.

To bring language to what has gone unaddressed.And to create space for grief to be engaged truthfully—within both human experience and faith.

Grief does not exist outside of faith, it exists within it.

And it is within that space that clarity and formation must take place.

— DMJ

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