Skillful Awareness in Times of Loss
Mark Pirtle
Loss has a way of resurfacing old wounds, blending past and present grief into a heavy emotional weight. In this reflection on losing his cat Ramses, Mark explores how the Polyvagal Theory explains how our nervous system processes grief and how Shadow Work reveals the deeper layers beneath our emotions. Through Skillful Awareness, he's learned to feel pain without amplifying it—to let grief come, be, and go.
