Grief & Revolutionary Love with Valarie Kaur

Welcome back to the Wild Heart Podcast with Willow Brook where we explore divinity in daily life with themes of love, mysticism, grief as a spiritual path, and sensual embodiment.

In this episode, visionary civil rights activist and faith leader Valarie Kaur shares about grief, Revolutionary Love, and community engagement in the face of personal and collective loss. We discuss the importance of embodying grief, the power of storytelling, and the need for deep solidarity in resisting authoritarianism. 

Valarie introduces the Revolutionary Love Compass as a tool for practicing love towards others, opponents, and oneself, emphasizing that love is a labor that requires community support. The discussion culminates in reflections on hope, forgiveness, and the transformative power of love in creating a more just world.

Valarie Kaur is a renowned civil rights leader, lawyer, award-winning documentary filmmaker, educator, faith leader, mother, and founder of the Revolutionary Love Project.  For twenty-five years, Valarie has led visionary campaigns to tell untold stories – at the sites of mass shootings, inside America’s supermax prison and in the wake of hate violence. The communities she served taught her an essential ingredient to birthing a healthy future: love.

A daughter of Punjabi Sikh farmers in California, Valarie earned degrees at Stanford University, Harvard Divinity School, and Yale Law School and holds several honorary doctorates. Her books envision a world rooted in the ethic of love – and show us how to get there- SEE NO STRANGER: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love, her children’s book WORLD OF WONDER; and her new book SAGE WARRIOR, an epic journey into Sikh wisdom and spiritual handbook for apocalyptic times. Today, the Revolutionary Love Project equips people with powerful tools to harness the love ethic for courageous action. 

Learn more about Valarie at www.valariekaur.com and The Revolutionary Love Project at www.revolutionarylove.org @valariekaur @revloveproject ⁠

Revolutionary Love Compass

If this conversation opened your wild heart, we invite you to join an upcoming event with our community:

If you or someone you know is grieving a miscarriage, pregnancy release, birth experience, parenthood transformation or supporting others through these events, you are invited to join Autonomous Midwife-Partera and elemental childbirth educator Aya Maria and Wild Heart co-founder Willow Brook to delve into the mysteries of existence, drawing upon ancient cosmologies and the wisdom of nature to guide us through the waves of grief.

Grieving Loss Experienced During Pregnancy & Birth

Aug 3rd, 2025 Recording Available

Grief is not a mistake. It is a sacred response to the profound love we carry. Whether your loss is fresh or long-held, our grief community Holy Lament with Wild Heart co-founders Mirabai Starr and Willow Brook offers a space of companionship, creativity, and soul-deep transformation. Through the alchemy of reflective writing, poetry, shared witnessing and sacred song, we invite you to explore the healing landscape of grief in a circle of loving presence. This is a spiritual container for those ready to turn toward loss and reclaim it as something sacred.

Holy Lament: The Transformative Path of Loss & Longing

Links:

Connect with Valarie: www.valariekaur.com

www.revolutionarylove.org

IG: @valariekaur @revloveproject ⁠

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IG ⁠@willow__brook⁠

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