This is one of the hardest things to bring to a doctor because there's often nothing to point to. Sleep is fine, or fine enough. Work is going alright. The relationships are intact. And yet, something has gone quiet that shouldn't be quiet, a sense of actually being present in your own life that used to be there and now isn't. People describe it to me as watching their life happen rather than living it; going through the motions.

I want to tell you about a pattern I've seen often enough that I can describe it without naming any one person because it belongs to many people, not one. It usually starts with someone who has been stuck in the same place for years. Not dramatically stuck. Functionally stuck. They go to work, keep their relationships going, seem fine from the outside. And underneath that, the same wall has been there for a very long time, the same thing that never quite resolves.

I get asked the question, 'Do I need a shamanic practitioner or a therapist?' often enough that I want to answer it directly, without steering you toward me as a shamanic practitioner by default. These two kinds of support do different work, and knowing which one fits what you're dealing with right now will save you time.

Some grief moves the way it's supposed to. It comes in waves, gets talked through, gets understood, and, over time, loosens its grip enough that life has room in it again. And some grief doesn't. You can talk about it for years, understand exactly what happened and why it hurts, be able to narrate the whole thing clearly to a therapist or a friend, and still find it sitting in you exactly where it was on day one, untouched by all that understanding.

There's a particular kind of sorrow people bring to me that doesn't quite fit their own story. They can't point to the loss that caused it. It doesn't track with anything that's happened in their own life, at least not obviously. It just sits there, familiar and old, as though it's been there longer than they have.

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