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Amar Atma Singh Khalsa

Amar Atma Singh Khalsa

Grief specialist, Board Certified Chaplain (BCC), and founder of the Institute for Compassionate Grieving, based in Santa Barbara, California.

Sep 24, 2026

19:04
But share with us how the body holds grief.
19:08
So the body becomes the first sight.
19:11
If grief is not an intellectual response, it's an emotional response, we have to feel through our grieving process.
19:18
We can't think our way through it.
19:20
And the first sight where feelings exist is in a precognitive way, it's going to be through the body and through sensations.
19:26
Before emotions are identified, before they're known or interpreted as emotion, they are felt through the body.
19:31
So to work with grief, we must include the body within the grieving process.

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Tell me a little bit about how time plays into acute versus chronic loss.

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