5 easy and accessible ways for grieving people to tap back into our bodies and stay grounded.
Roshni Kavate: Marigold is a grief wellness platform rooted in storytelling, culture, and rituals. She explains how to implement each of these steps in your day to day life. The framework was created out of a need for grievers to navigate grief in not a linear way.
As you're navigating your grief journey, are you wondering if I just had a framework that would make it so easy to name what I'm doing, but also how I can navigate my grief journey? Maybe there's touch points. Are you wondering, are there, you know, something beyond naming stages of grief? Hi, my name is Roshni Kavate. I'm the co founder of Marigold. And I'm Rebecca Servoth, co founder of Marigold. And we're a grief wellness platform rooted in storytelling, culture, and rituals. We've created a framework called the Marigold Way.
And this framework was created out of a need for us as grievers and as supporters of people who are grieving, to navigate grief in not such a linear way. And we felt that although the stages of grief are really helpful to understanding grief, we don't move through them in a linear fashion, and it can make us feel like we're not in the right place. So we'd like to introduce you to the Marigold way and the ways that you can implement each of these steps of the Marigold way in your day to day life.
And the beauty of this is it's really supportive. You can, you know, use it, all of them in your day to day life. Or maybe it's one element. So the first one is warmth. Warmth is both physical warmth, but also kindness, laughter, gentleness. So including warming elements while you're grieving. So it's a cup of tea or getting cozy, being around people who make you happy. Yeah. And second is digestion. Digestion includes everything that we take in in life, our food, the amount of information you're being exposed to, your experiences, your conversations, what you're watching on social media, we have to digest it all.
Otherwise it just accumulates in our bodies and our minds and our hearts. So by limiting the amount of input in our days, simplifying our days, and, you know, movement of the body, movement of the emotional journey. So using things that can help us process, like journaling, talking, dancing, singing, cooking, these are ways that we kind of get this energy out of our body and transform it into something productive. The third one is rejuvenation. While we're grieving, it can feel like we're depleted, we're exhausted, and we don't have a lot of energy.
So building on that digestion, we want to simplify but also nourish your body. That means rejuvenation through really, you know, comforting foods. So things like stews, warm baked things, you know, hearty foods that give us a sense of weight so we can, you know, physically be strong, emotionally be ready to tackle what's coming. It could also mean additional support, getting, you know, going to a group or having a spiritual practice. Something that rejuvenates your spiritual. Yeah. And this next one really goes hand in hand with rejuvenation, and that's pleasure.
And pleasure might feel counterintuitive when you're grieving, but we can find pleasure in so many ways, and we encourage you to allow in the smallest of pleasures, whether that's even just textural, like having a soft fabric on your skin that makes you feel better, whether that means making your bed with soft sheets and fuzzy blankets that, you know, when you're cocooning yourself in bed, even if you're in sadness, that your body is feeling comforted and it feels pleasurable to be in that space.
Pleasure can also mean, you know, looking at a beautiful flower while you're eating dinner. We can take in pleasure through all of our senses, so think of some creative ways in which you can bring in something that just makes you feel good. And the last one is rituals. Rituals are both tiny and big acts that mark time, that recognize the experience we're going through. So a simple ritual can be, you know, eating dinner together or eating dinner by yourself, by making space for it. Maybe it's celebrating anniversaries or birthdays.
Or it can be as simple as making a cup of coffee in the morning to really ground down and give yourself that sense of time and space and reflect on how you're feeling. So I hope this framework of marigold way is supportive. So anytime you're feeling, oh, what do I do? I'm so overwhelmed. One of these can offer you that sense of support and comfort, no matter what your grief is craving. Thanks for listening. We hope to hear from you. Talk to you soon.
