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How to heal: loss and the miracle that follows

Amy Haworth
6 min readJul 3, 2022

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Loss comes into our lives in many forms. Perhaps it’s a loss of a relationship or a job. Maybe what disappeared is trust. Or, maybe we lost a loved one who passed. Perhaps, we lost confidence or certainty.

And, unless you were born after 2020, the world is connected through a single, universal loss. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, we’ve all lost the version of ourselves and our lives pre-pandemic. And each of us are in various stages of a grieving and healing process that is leaving many bereft of direction and without a compass to make sense of it.

The generative miracle of healing is the flip-side of the fractured destruction of loss. To see the importance of the full cycle in our lives, we must honor both.

Where something is removed, something fresh will take its place.

The universe is always in a state of expansion.

Step 1: Name it

When we can reconcile that the feeling we feel is loss, we can begin to allow the healing. Name that wound or simply label it “loss.” Know that feeling isn’t you, but rather…it’s a feeling. Like a bruise, a cut or a broken bone, loss is an injury.

Loss comes in different forms and degrees, but our body helps us identify what has happened.

You’ll notice your loss because you will feel a literal emptiness in your body: your chest feels hollowed out. In fact, the idea…

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Amy Haworth
Amy Haworth

Written by Amy Haworth

I help individuals, teams, and organizations have the impact they desire. Cultivator of Human Potential | Change Mgmnt Practitioner | NobodyMakesItAlone.com

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