Miriam Greenspan

It's a response that comes with many emotions at the same time.

So the barriers that we have created within ourselves, the coping mechanisms, the defense mechanisms that we have to fragment this internal world, Grief, when a loss comes, breaks down those walls and we are then forced to reckon with an inner reality that we have created powerful divisions, fragmentations, and what Miriam Greenspan calls emotion phobia.

We have created a whole inner world of our life that we have become afraid of and avoid and deny, perhaps even suppress and compartmentalize.

And as a strategy for grief, it can actually lead to a lot of physical detriment, emotional detriment, psychological detriment, and also spiritual detriment as well.