Can Seeking Enlightenment Soothe Grief?

Looking for a higher love as a non-religious person

Steffany Ritchie
The Wind Phone
Published in
4 min readJan 31, 2023

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Photo by Vladimir Maliutin: https://www.pexels.com/photo/buddha-surrounded-with-flowers-3915769/

I am officially a cliché. After several months of grieving my father, I have apparently entered the “pray” section of “Eat Pray Love.” (I admit I tried and failed to finish this book last summer! When Elizabeth Gilbert starts writing out the breathing practices of her meditation in extended detail I lost the…

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Steffany Ritchie
The Wind Phone

Hi, I write memoir, humor, music, and pop culture. American in Scotland.