Growth & Grief

Karissa Kocjancic
6 min readMar 9, 2024
Photo by Tobias Jelskov on Unsplash

If you’re not growing a piece of you is dying. Your dreams. Your soul. Your spirit. Your authentic self. The path of personal healing and transformation gives you what you’re willing to put into it; really more like what you’re willing to lose.

Is it yourself? Or another? Does it have to be either or? We get what we give. Thats why they always say when you’re in a space of lack or scarcity; become abundance. Looking for someone else to fulfill a need? Show up and give it to yourself. Looking for love? Embody it. That which you are seeking is also seeking you.

But what happens when we allow ourselves to receive? Afterall that is what they say the divine feminine does. To receive in a masculine world that asks for you to abandon your femineity and become more like the patriarch is a risk in itself. Will I be safe? Protected? Guided? How can I trust another if I cannot trust myself?

The antitode is to have your own back. To recollect on the times in your life when you have survived, this trauma that loss, and persevered. Because my god are you strong. Are you resilient. But what if you’re sick of being strong? What if you’re exhausted? What if surviving has kept you from truly thriving?

They say if we want to go fast; we go alone, however, should we aspire to go far we will go together, two by two, four by four and so on. Collective…

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Karissa Kocjancic

Lover of life. Believer of people. Connoisseur of growth. Mom. RYT-500. & Certified Life Coach at www.powerhouseprana.com and www.jrni.co