Tag: empathetic witnessing

• the invitation of our overwhelm: empathetic witnessing

  a reflection, a poem, and a practice “Trauma is not what happens to us, but what we hold inside in the absence of an empathetic witness.” ―Peter A. Levine Content warning: depression, pregnancy loss, anxiety, grief For much of my life, my sensitivity has felt like moving through an ultra-bright, sunlit world without sunglasses. When…

  Lindsay O’Connor

  May 14, 2026

  Grief, Maternal Mental Health, Mental Health, Miscarriage, Motherhood, Poetry, Self-Compassion, Spiritual Practices, Transformation

  Anxiety, Contemplative Life, empathetic witnessing, Grief, Healing, overwhelm, Poetry, Self-Compassion, spiritual direction, Transformation