Petrichor: What The Smell Of Rain Teaches About Grief

How to use a grief ritual to allow emotional storms to pass.

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The word petrichor is as beautiful as nature itself. It combines the Greek petra (stone) and īchōr, which in Greek mythology is the “ethereal fluid that makes the blood of Gods immortal.” Petrichor describes the sweet scent of freshly fallen rain, a smell somehow grounding…