Innercise Yoga

Grief is the toughest emotion I’ve ever felt.

Grief and gratitude aren’t separate chapters. They arrive together, tangled up in the same moments. You can be sitting with everything you’ve lost and, at the very same time, recognize how much you were given. It’s not neat. It’s not a choice. It’s just the way love leaves its mark—through both the hurt and the thankfulness that refuse to let go.

Gratitude doesn’t take the sting out of grief. It doesn’t change the fact that they’re gone. But it reminds you that what remains is a gift of having known them, loved them, and been loved by them.

There are days when grief takes over and gratitude feels impossible to find. And then there are days when gratitude slips in—a memory that makes you laugh, the sound of their voice in your head, the way their influence still shapes who you are. Grief pulls you back to the pain of what’s gone, gratitude points you toward what will always stay with you. Neither one cancels the other out. They move together, sometimes shifting, sometimes overlapping, but always reminding you that grief only exists because love did first.

Grief keeps you tied to the truth that someone you love isn’t here anymore. Gratitude keeps you tied to the life you shared with them. It’s not easy. It’s not fair. But it’s real. And it’s the proof that love doesn’t end, even when life does.

Written by: Aimee Suyko - In Their Footsteps

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"Christ consciousness
was never meant
to sit on an altar.

It was meant
to live in your bones.

In the moment
you choose love
without needing it returned.

In the restraint
no one claps for.

In the quiet knowing
that you no longer have to explain
what God has already made clear.

You stop reaching.
You stop proving.
You stop carrying what was never yours.

And without announcement—
you rise.
Not above others.
But above the version of you
that once needed them
to understand.

You forgive
without reopening the door.
You love
without abandoning yourself.
You walk
without looking back for approval.

This is not religion.
This is embodiment.
This is power
without force.

This is peace
that cannot be disturbed.

This is God
moving through a human
who finally remembered
who they are.

Christ consciousness
is not something you find.
It’s something you return to."

—Hallie Stapleton

This weekend!!! Teaching at both 11:30am & 12:30 in the Atrium. 🖼️

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