So Hard (a song for grieving)

from Yukon Lullaby for Mental Health by Nicole Edwards

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“This is a hard thing to do. We can do hard things.” Glennon Doyle

I wish that you will feel less alone when hearing this song. Listen to my voice reminding you to breathe. I can’t be there in person, but I’m with you in spirit.

Grief and trauma have a sliding scale. There is no need to measure, defend, prove, deny or compare anything. If you’re feeling it, it’s real. There is no place for judgement.

In this song, the lyrics validate the experience of being overwhelmed with unmanageable feelings. Even though good things exist in the world, we can’t see or feel them when we’re locked in a panic or loss-loop.

My wish is that when it feels TOO HARD you can listen to this song to help the grief move through you... and to breathe... so you can find a place of calm. Intentional breathing is a way to help us regulate and slow down the chaos within.

Sometimes in life we experience loss, grief and trauma so acutely that our ability for reasoning and decision-making shuts down. Our autonomic nervous system is wired to react to a threat to alert us of danger, but this state of ‘fight, flight or freeze’ is exhausting. So how to get our brain back on-line during crushing anxiety or grief? When the mountain is too steep to climb and the river rushes too cold and wide to cross…. The first step: BREATHE.

I offer this song to bring comfort during overwhelming grief or anxiety. May it be a tool to support the process of de-escalation.

Created with gratitude within the traditional territories of the Kwanlin Dün and Kluane First Nations and the Ta’an Kwäch’än Council.

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LYRICS - So hard (a song for grieving)

The world’s full of rainbows, ice cream and puppy dogs.
I never knew that it could be so hard
Raindrops on roses, whiskers on kittens
I never knew that it would be so hard
Hard, hard, hard, hard, so hard

I am a Warrior. I am Resilient.
I never knew that it could be so hard
Mountains of effort. Moments of beauty
I never knew that it would be so hard
Hard, hard, hard, hard, so hard

Hold my hand.
Understand.
We can be witnesses......
Let’s breathe
Breathe, breathe, breathe, breathe, breathe.

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from Yukon Lullaby for Mental Health, track released January 12, 2021
AUDIO CREDITS
Written, sung and produced by Nicole Edwards
Instrumental performance, recording & production assistance by Andrea McColeman
Mixing & mastering by Jordy Walker

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