Temples of numbness

Musings from a Feminine perspective

I’ve watched the rise of events dedicated to processing grief in the last years and read with fascination about the grief temples Malidoma Somé describes in his book Of Water & Spirit, a fascinating insight into his personal history and the culture of the Dagara tribe he came from, in Burkina Faso.

The reason I’ve never been to a grief-centred event is n…