Anticipatory

12 min

Anticipatory grief begins while the person you love is still here: breathing nearby, answering the phone, perhaps forgetting your name and remembering it again. This practice gives that long goodbye permission to be real, noticing where it lives in the body without asking it to lift. Love and grief are allowed to move side by side, held by a private vow for the time you still have together.

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Claire Beaumont
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Claire Beaumont
Clear, grounding, light

Clear and grounding, present without weight — a few minutes to come back to the breath and carry on steadier.

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About this session

Anticipatory is a guided audio session from Salūs — part of the loss and grief collection, narrated by Claire Beaumont.

Salūs is an ad-free sleep and meditation app for iOS and Android — hundreds of guided sessions, long bedtime stories for adults and 325 free sleep sounds. Hear the full session with a 7-day free trial. Every session is signed off by our BSc (Hons) & MSc Psychology team.

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