Restorative Grief with Mandy Capehart
What Can Integration Mean For Me?
Integration is a five dollar word in the grief world — but what it means to you is what matters.
We could spend hours collecting all the best and most highly recommended grief resources in the world, but if we have never done the work to embody the wisdom they contain, then we are left right where we started, with a large pile of literature and a gaping hole in our understanding.
Integration is an active practice of participating in our grief stories and today, we are going to explore what an integration practice could mean for you.
What Is Integration?
Integration is a big ol’ word that just means to fold one or more things into one another in a meaningful, purposeful, and effective way. If you’re a fan of the TV show Schitt’s Creek, the iconic cheese folding scene is coming to mind right now.
What if Moira Rose had asked David to integrate the cheese? They would have been just as confused, and not for lack of intelligence. Integration is an act easily misunderstood when we mistake our intelligence for embodied wisdom, and that’s what we’re really going to talk about today.
