The Impact of Grief on Spiritual Growth

A 6-week course

Stay Tuned for Our 2026 Dates for this course!

What we'll explore in this course:

In life there are so many phases that we pass through, each one with a loss of something which affects us. Loss and Grieving are a natural part of growth and transition, and also require some time to process and integrate before we can fully move forward. This introductory course opens the door to this important element showing how loss and grieving helps us develop, transition and grow.

As we change and grow there will be so many losses, often experienced as something unexpected and unwanted. We might lose a job, a limb, our identity, our home, our faith… Grief is the natural, necessary, normal response to loss. The degree of grief feelings we will have following that loss will depend on how attached we are to the object of our attachment. Grief is a long and arduous process of learning to digest and integrate the pain of loss, and a grieving person never returns to being “normal”.

In response to that, we can: 

1) Do nothing and passively keep our grief feelings to ourselves;

OR

2) Become an active participant in our grieving and mourning process. As Krishna Bhaktas we may think that, if we just chant more, the pain of grief will go away. This will be very helpful if we are able to chant with full attention.

However, if the grief feelings are not acknowledged and tended to, they will become stronger and stronger until they will lead to some big life crisis that incapacitates you until you finally do pay attention to them.