"Even as I rocked on my knees, howling, I detected soft breathing behind the roaring. I leaned in, listened. It was the murmuring of the million mothers, backward and forward in time and right now, who had also lost children. They were lifting me, holding me. They had woven a net of their broken hearts, and they were keeping me safe there. I realized that one day I would take my rightful place as a link in this web, and I would hold my sister-mothers when children died. For now my only task was to grieve and be cradled in their love."Mirabai StarrWelcome to the premiere of Season Four of AMORTE podcast where we share loss, grief and death education with a loving view. I am your host Patty Bueno and today I am so honored to share an amazing woman with you.Mirabai Starr is an award-winning author, a mystical scholar and inter-spiritual teacher.She taught Philosophy and World Religions at the University of New Mexico-Taos for 20 years and now teaches and speaks internationally on contemplative practice and inter-spiritual dialog. A certified bereavement counselor, Mirabai helps mourners harness the transformational power of grief and loss. Mirabai wrote a beautiful memoir in 2015 Caravan of No Despair: A Memoir of Loss and Transformation.In this beautiful memoir, she shares her personal journey with loss.Mirabai lost her brother Matty at the age of 7. Her first love Phillip when she was 14. Her father when she was 30 and she was 40 when her daughter Jenny died at the age of 14. Caravan of No Despair came out  on the 14th anniversary of Jenny´s death.It took her 12 years to be able to be able to integrate the trauma, the beauty of  her story and make it universal and see the  transformational message that came from the book "Show up for your experience, even though it feels impossible to sit in the fire". Her latest book is WILD MERCY: Living the Fierce & Tender Wisdom of the Women Mystics. She lives with her extended family in the mountains of northern New Mexico. "Incluso mientras me balanceaba sobre mis rodillas, aullando, detecté una respiración suave detrás del rugido. Me incliné y escuché. Era el murmullo de un millón de madres, desde el pasado y el futuro, incluso en el presente, que también habían perdido a sus hijos. Me levantaban, abrazándome. Habían tejido una red con sus corazones rotos y me mantenían a salvo en ella. Me di cuenta de que algún día tomaría el lugar que me corresponde como parte del entramado de este tejido, y abrazaría a mis hermanas-madres cuando sus niños murieran. En ese momento, mi única tarea era llorar y sentirme acunada por su amor."Bienvenidos al estreno de la cuarta temporada de AMORTE, donde miramos a la muerte y pérdidas con amor. Tengo el honor de compartirles una entrevista que le hice a la aclamada escritora, conferencista, maestra espiritual y terapeuta de duelo Mirabai Starr. Nos habla acerca de su libro Caravan of no despair: a memoir of loss and transformation.Todo lo que aprendió a través de las experiencias vividas de sus pérdidas. Este capítulo está grabado en español pero lo puedes ver con subtítulos en español en mi canal de YouTube Life is a Ceremony by Patty Bueno.Puedes seguir a Mirabai Starr en https://www.mirabaistarr.com Con AMORtePatty Bueno