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Grief is one of the most powerful

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, complex and deeply personal

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experiences you

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will ever go through . It

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can sometimes feel like an overwhelming

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wave , it can knock you off

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balance when you least expect it , and

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yet it is something that we

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all experience at some point

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in our lives . In today's episode

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, I'm opening up about my own journey with grief

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the raw , the real and the

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unexpected moments that changed me . I'll

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also be sharing some tools and insights

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that can help you move through grief

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rather than feeling stuck in

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it . Whether you're grieving

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a loss , a season of life , or even

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a version of yourself you've had to let go of

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, you are not alone . Let's have

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an honest , compassionate conversation about

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grief , how we process

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it , how we honor it and

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how we slowly begin to feel

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light again . Take a deep breath , grab

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. I think when we hear

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the term grief , we always think about

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losing a loved one , the death of

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a loved one , someone that we love

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, passing away , whether it has two

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legs or four legs or no legs irrelevant

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we always kind of think . I

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feel like we think it's about

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the loss of that

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individual

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. But grief

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isn't always about the death of a loved

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one . It literally can be about

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losing a job , moving

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away from somewhere that you've loved

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, being connected

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in some way and then losing that

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connection . Grief

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covers all of those

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things and more . It's not always

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about physical death

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, and

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I really feel

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like that's something that we don't

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remember in our daily lives

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. It could be grief

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over losing a former

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version of yourself . Like I said in the

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intro , it

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can be about anything

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. It can be about relationships , it

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can be about losing your

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favorite food . You know what

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if you woke up tomorrow and you could no longer

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eat the foods that you love . I've

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had that happen with friends of mine . Friends

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of mine have gotten sick and they've had to go

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through elimination diets and realized they

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can't eat the things that they've always loved . Personally

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, I can't eat the things that I

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love because they are not good for me , and

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one of the things that I find

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kind of interesting

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and sad about myself is

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I never really grieved before

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a couple of years ago . Here I am

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in my mid-50s and

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grief was something that was really foreign

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to me and even though I didn't

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really experience it myself , I

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didn't allow myself to experience it

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. I understood it and I could have empathy

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for other people going through grief , but

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I never allowed myself to grieve

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and it was actually a

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survival mechanism

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for myself when

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we're younger . I remember I

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had a really good friend up

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until I was 11 years old and

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then we moved and that was really hard

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and I think it was after that that

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I just stopped allowing myself to grieve

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. And I do remember coming

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up against other things in my life that I

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had lost , you know through my teen years

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and stuff like that and how hard it

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hit and

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I would just close myself off , not

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allow myself to grieve , you know , because

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if I didn't feel it it didn't hurt , right

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. But the problem with

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that is when we shut

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ourself off to emotions

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emotions that we consider bad

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, emotions like grief when we

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shut ourself off to emotions

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, we shut ourself

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off to everything . I

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didn't realize it at the time , but

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after my physical breakdown I

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realized , you know , not allowing

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myself to feel those things

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and holding it all inside and allowing

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that energy to become trapped in my body led

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to my physical breakdown . My

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physical breakdown didn't just happen . I mean , it was

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years in the making , and

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I'll share more about that in another

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episode coming up . I'll share more about what

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I went through , my experiences . But shutting

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all that stuff off harmed

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me in a major way . So

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when I was younger , right , I didn't allow

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myself to grieve . I would

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shut it off , pretend it wasn't happening

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and move on , right , move

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on , keep moving , keep moving , keep moving

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, run , run , run , run from that grief , run

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from the pain . And

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I think back and

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again . This is something I realized just recently

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. But I think back out of all of the moves

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that we've done , because we're a former

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military family , we moved every three years

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like clockwork right Create new friends and

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then leave . Create new friends and then leave

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. Create new friends and then leave . Create new friends and

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then leave , get involved in organizations

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, get involved in just

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, and then leave . And

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I never really grieved

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the leaving . I

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typically

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would start shutting myself off about

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six months before leaving so

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that we could just leave , no big deal , it's

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just time to move . Oh well , bye

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, friends . Hopefully we'll stay in touch

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, maybe , maybe not . But

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I didn't grieve . We just

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kept moving . I kept moving , I kept . Yeah

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, I cried , but I don't believe I allowed myself

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to really , truly grieve because

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I'd gotten so good at

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shutting it off , I had gotten so

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good at shoving it down

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, I had gotten so good at not

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letting things bother me at shoving it down

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. I had gotten so good at not letting things bother me . I was fine . My sister

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would ask me do you miss mom sometimes

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? And I'm like no , not

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really . And she can't understand that because she's much more in tune with her

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emotions than I am or than I used to be anyway , and

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I didn't grieve . I

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remember very clearly because

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my mom was non-responsive at this time

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. I remember very clearly saying

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to her I know you're a

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prideful woman and you don't want us to see

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your passing , so I'm going to lay

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down here and I'm going to

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close my eyes , take a little rest

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and you are free to go . And

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about 10 minutes after I did that , she breathed

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her last and I

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heard the death rattle . If anyone's ever been

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at the bedside you know what that is . And I heard

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the death rattle . I woke my dad up and I said

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this is it , she's leaving . And

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we came together around her

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bed and we

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were with her when she passed . There

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are stages of grief that people

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typically go through right Denial , anger

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, bargaining , depression and acceptance

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. I skipped all of those . I

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skipped the denial , the anger , the bargaining

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, the depression and I immediately went to acceptance

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in all of these situations . And

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I immediately went to acceptance in , like all

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of these situations , every

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time we would move , anytime a pet would pass away , anytime someone I loved would pass away . I would

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just go past all of those other stages and immediately to acceptance

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. But I know , for me it

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was about protection . I was

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protecting myself , I

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was protecting my heart and

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shutting all of that off and shoving it down

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, moving right past all

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those other stages and going straight to acceptance

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. Well , it was their time , time for them to go

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. No big deal . That

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sounds so callous now that I look back at

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it , but that's where

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I was at that time . But

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I had my first true

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grief experience as an adult when

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my brother passed away two and a half years ago . In the

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last episode my sister and I talked a

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little bit about our brother . I

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look at grief like

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an ocean

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little island out in the middle of the Pacific

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and there were

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some beaches where the waves were nice and gentle

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, and then there were other beaches that would crash

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. The waves would just crash . And

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that's kind of the way grief is . Sometimes

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it's crashing , sometimes it knocks

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you off balance and sometimes it's

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just this gentle , soothing

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covering . Yeah , and

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when

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my sister and I were talking about my brother in

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the last episode , that brought forward some

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of those gentle grief waves . Sunday

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in church we sang a song I'd never heard

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before , so I don't even remember the tune , but

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I can read to you what the lyrics were oh

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, the overwhelming , never-ending reckless love

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of God . It chases me down

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fights till I'm found . Never-ending reckless love of God

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. It chases me down fights till I'm found and leaves the 99 . I couldn't

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earn it , I didn't deserve it . Still

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, you gave yourself away . Oh , the overwhelming

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, never-ending

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, reckless love of God . And as I was singing this song , just waves of grief about my brother were

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coming back in . And then , of course , course , it had me thinking

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about my entire grief journey as

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it surrounds my brother . So

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we were living on Guam . I'm going to go ahead and share this

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story with you . We were living on Guam and

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I was coming back to the States to visit

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. I had a retreat to go to and

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then I was going to stay for about a month and

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go visit family and friends all over

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the United States . We've got people everywhere . So

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after my retreat

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, I went to visit our oldest son in Northern

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California . I stayed there for about a week and

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then I flew to . Where did I

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go next ? I flew to Florida to visit my

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dad and my

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brother . He was going to meet me in Florida

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and take

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a little road trip with me . My

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dad had been caring for my car while

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I was overseas , but I was going to take it up to my son

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in North Carolina and

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my brother was going to join me on that road trip , because

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I love road trips . He loves road

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trips and he was just so excited

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to be able to spend time with me . As

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an adult We'd never really spent

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a lot of time together as adults . You

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know , we didn't have the best relationship

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as kids , as

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most people probably have that experience

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. And then , as we became adults

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, we each went our own ways and we did our own

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things and raised our families etc . Etc . So

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we didn't really have a whole

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lot of time together . And

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he reached out to me when he found out I

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was coming back and what my plans were and

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we were going to road trip together . I was so excited

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about that . So I'm at my dad's . I had just

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gotten to my dad's , probably an hour

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before the phone rang and

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he called to let us know that

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they found a tumor in his colon

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and he was going in for surgery to

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have the blockage removed because

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it was cancer . And my dad

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and I flew out to Las

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Vegas to be there for his surgery

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and it was a beautiful time at his

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bedside and that was the beginning

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of his cancer journey . And

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his cancer was diagnosed

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and 84 days later he passed away . But

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we got the call from

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my sister-in-law that his

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time was coming close to an end . So

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I flew back to the United States to

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be at my brother's bedside . I had

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no return date . It was an open-ended

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ticket and I had been

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up until this point . I had been doing so

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much personal work . I had been working

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with . I had worked with a therapist

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. I had worked with coaches . As

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an aromatherapist , I used my aromatherapy

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tools . As a holistic , intuitive

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healer , I did

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what I could for myself . It's always hard to work for

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yourself , healer . I did what

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I could for myself . It's always hard to work for

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yourself . It's

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so important to have other people who can speak into your life , which is why I was

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working with coaches to help me become a better me . When he passed

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away and

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the days leading up to his passing , I allowed

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myself to feel . I allowed myself to his passing . I allowed myself

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to feel , I allowed myself to be present

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. I allowed myself to

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just experience

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being there . It's

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not like I've never been with someone who'd passed away

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before . I have . I've been with people

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who've passed away . I used to volunteer

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for hospice , I've been there at the bedside

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, but this was the first time I actually

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allowed myself the chance

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to grieve , the chance to feel

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the weight of his passing

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. And then fast forward another

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year and we got word

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that my husband's time

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at his office in Guam was

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done and we were going to be moving back to the States

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. Well , I'd moved so many times

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before . No big deal , right ? No

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big deal . Well , this time it was because

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I had allowed myself

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to experience

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my emotions . Working with

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my coaches , I

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had learned to connect

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with my emotions

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. I believe that we are all born

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sensitive beings , every single

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one of us . The

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reason I believe that is because we need

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our senses to survive this life . We have to

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be able to feel , hear , see , touch

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, smell . We

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have to be able to do those things to be able

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to get through this life . How do you know something's hot

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if you can't feel that it's hot ? Like ? We need our

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senses , and when we're lacking a

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sense , the other senses are heightened . We

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are all born sensitive beings . We are

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meant to experience the full

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range of human emotion on this planet . That's

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part of our sensing . That's part of our

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ability to survive . So

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I had learned to allow myself

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to feel again . So here we are , leaving

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Guam and I'm thinking to myself no big deal

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, this is fine . We've moved so many times before

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, but this is the first time . We've been back

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in the States for a couple of years now , but I

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miss it . I actually

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grieve leaving Guam

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. I miss Guam

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, I miss my friends there , I

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miss my experience of the island . This

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is the first time I've ever missed somewhere

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that I've moved from . This

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is the first time I've ever longed to

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go back to somewhere and

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it's because I now allow myself to

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actually feel emotions . Grief

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is

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an emotion . Grief is something we

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need to allow ourselves to feel , to

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again have that full experience

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of being human . But

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how can you move through the stages

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of grief ? How can you make

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it through and still be okay ? Because

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that feeling of loss again

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going back to the very beginning , whether it's

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a person , a pet

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, a place , an

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experience , regardless

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of what it is how in the

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world can you manage the

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heaviness of that grief ? There

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are a lot of ways and you know what you

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can do a Google search . There are podcasts

16:35

about grief , there are coaches that focus

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on grief , there are therapists that focus on

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grief . There is so much out there

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about grief , but my personal

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experience of grief the

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thing that helped me the most experience

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of grief , the thing that helped me the most . I was participating

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in a mentorship program here where I live , and the topic that we were

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talking about was death one day and

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I shared this experience of being at my brother's

17:02

bedside . But I also

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shared that I'm still struggling with it . And

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here it is , you know , a year and a half , two years later , still

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struggling with it . And at the time that

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I was in this mentorship program and

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all my aromatherapy friends out there might understand

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this I

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was experiencing phantasmia

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Now that's a fancy

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word for olfactory

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hallucination as

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I was going through this mentorship program . This

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went on for a couple of months . I was smelling

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cigarette smoke , cigarette

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smoke constantly , smelling cigarette smoke

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. Now , there's a number of possible

17:40

reasons to experience phantasmia

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. It could be like sinus infection , migraines

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, head injuries , but I was experiencing

17:48

it because of the loss . I

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was experiencing this phantasmia because

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my brain was struggling

17:55

to make

17:57

sense of this loss , to get through this

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grief . But I'm smelling this

18:02

cigarette smoke constantly and

18:04

it was just the weirdest experience . And when

18:06

I shared that in the mentoring group , my

18:08

mentor , he said , well , have

18:10

you worked your way through the grief ? And I was

18:12

like , well , not really . So he

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suggested and this is my first suggestion

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for you , if you're working through grief yourself

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, is to write a letter , and

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not just a letter about the grief , right ? Not

18:24

that A letter . I wrote

18:26

a letter to my brother about

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all of the wonderful things I remember about

18:31

him , all of the fun that we had

18:33

growing up , the experiences

18:36

that we shared , and

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it was really cathartic to

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write it all down and

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get it out of my head and out of my heart , because

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when you write things physically , write

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things with your hand , you use a different part

18:51

of your brain . It wakes up

18:53

new neural connections and new pathways

18:55

. So writing that letter

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was a huge part of my grief process

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. So if you're going

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through a stage of grief and again , doesn't matter

19:04

what it's related to and I want

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to tell you this also Again

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, doesn't matter what it's related to , and

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I want to tell you this also

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no one can tell you and I

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want you to hear this no

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one can tell you that something is not worth

19:21

grieving . No-transcript

19:24

. Everyone on this

19:26

planet is unique . Everyone

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is different . Every relationship

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we have , every connection that we make is

19:33

unique to us . No

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one can tell you what is worth grieving and

19:39

no one can tell you how long grief

19:41

should last . No one . Do

19:43

not let anyone ever tell you that

19:45

. Anyone ever tell you that . I had a friend

19:47

one time , an

19:49

older lady whose husband

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passed away and I was

19:54

friends with one of her children . She

19:57

called me one day , really , really

19:59

, really upset , and

20:04

this was several months after the passing of her husband . She called me really upset because her

20:06

children were telling her that she needed to change the message

20:08

on her answering machine because

20:11

they didn't like calling and hearing their dad's

20:13

voice . It was very hard for them . Well

20:16

, I told her . I said you know what

20:18

? That is your husband's voice . And

20:21

she told me it gives her comfort to hear

20:23

the voice . I said you tell your kids

20:25

stop calling if it's too hard for them

20:27

, because that's what's making

20:29

it possible for you to get through the grief

20:32

. Don't let anyone

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tell you how long grief should last

20:36

, but

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writing that letter to my brother was a huge

20:41

part of my grief process . So

20:44

if you're going through a grief process , maybe writing a

20:46

letter could be cathartic for you as well . So if you're going through a grief process

20:48

, maybe writing a letter could be cathartic for you as well . Like I

20:50

said earlier , there are therapists that

20:52

focus on grief . There's coaches that focus

20:55

on grief . There are people who

20:57

can walk beside you as you

20:59

move through your grief . Just

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find ways to invite joy into

21:04

your life . Find

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ways to bring

21:09

joy into

21:11

the grief . I know that sounds

21:13

crazy , but it's totally possible

21:16

. It is totally possible to find

21:18

joy even through grief . Grief

21:20

takes its own time . Don't let anybody tell

21:23

you how long your grief should last

21:25

, and the timing is different

21:27

for everyone and

21:29

the timing is different for each

21:31

grief situation . Just

21:34

because it took , you know , six months

21:36

for you to grieve one thing doesn't

21:39

mean that's what it's going to be every single

21:41

time Because , again

21:43

, you are unique

21:45

. The people , the

21:47

animals , the things that you connect

21:49

with are unique to you . Every

21:53

single one of them is going to have its own

21:55

grieving period . And be

21:58

gracious with yourself , be gentle

22:00

with yourself as you move through

22:02

the stages , as you allow

22:05

grief its time , as you

22:07

allow grief it's time . But the other thing

22:09

I want to encourage you to do through

22:12

grief is seek presence

22:14

at all times . Seek

22:17

presence at each of the stages

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of grief , whether you go through them quickly

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or you take your time moving

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through the stages . Go through

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each stage with presence

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, and I actually have

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a gift for you that might help . You

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know , what if you could slow down through

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the grief ? What if you could

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breathe through the grief ? And

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I know this sounds kind of counterintuitive , but what if you could actually enjoy the moment

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that you're in ? Because sometimes grief is remembering the good things

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, right , but what if you could actually

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enjoy that moment without

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feeling guilt or without feeling stressed

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? How great would that

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be . And that's exactly

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why I created Five Ways to Practice

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Presence . It's a free guide for you

23:04

to help you feel more grounded

23:07

and connected , reduce

23:09

the overwhelm of the grief in

23:12

just a few minutes a day , and to experience

23:15

more peace , joy and clarity , no

23:18

matter where you are , whether you're going through

23:20

grief or you're just moving

23:22

through life . Presence isn't about doing

23:24

more . I want you to hear that Presence

23:27

is not about doing more . It's about

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fully living in the moments that you have

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right now , and

23:33

this guide gives you simple , practical ways

23:35

to bring more mindfulness and calm

23:38

into your everyday life , starting right

23:40

now . So if you're

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ready to stop rushing

23:44

through everything , especially

23:46

the grief , right , like I used to do , moving

23:49

right to acceptance , if you're ready

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to stop rushing through it and start truly

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living it , just download Five

23:55

Ways to Practice Presence today , and

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I will include that link in the show

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notes . It's yours , it's free , just go

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grab it . And I want you to breathe in and

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exhale and

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allow grief its time

24:13

. One

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more thing I want to tell you before

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we close today If you are

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not experiencing grief right

24:23

now , but you have someone in your

24:25

life who is , this

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is something that I found so

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helpful when I was outside of

24:32

grief right . Remember , at the beginning I said

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I didn't allow myself to grieve , but I could

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have empathy towards those who were and

24:38

understand their experience . I

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had a friend this

24:42

is a long time ago , decades ago whose

24:45

husband passed away and

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I didn't reach out to her right away . And

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the reason I did that ? Intentionally because

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in the moments immediately

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following the

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grief moment whether

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that's the passing of someone

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or the moving or

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whatever it is Usually

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in those first two

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weeks everybody

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in their pet monkey is reaching out . How can I

25:17

help ? Let me know if you need anything . Blah , blah

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, blah . Here's some food , here's a card

25:22

, here's some flowers . In

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those first two weeks you're inundated , right

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. You're surrounded by people , you're surrounded

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by love , you're surrounded by compassion . After

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those first two weeks , it kind of starts to taper off

25:35

and you get the occasional card or the occasional

25:37

hey , just checking in , but after

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about six weeks people

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forget . We are so forgetful

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, people are so forgetful . And after about

25:47

six weeks people start to forget . People

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not start to . They have forgotten . They're

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caught up in their own lives , they're busy moving

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on . And here

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you are , six weeks out , and now

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the grief hits brand new . It hits all

26:02

over again , because now you're alone . Now

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you're alone . So

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I waited after my friend's husband passed

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away for a couple of months , and

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then I reached out hey

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, would you like to get together ? Let's

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do something , let's go

26:19

, let's do whatever , pick

26:21

a thing that you enjoy doing with that person , because

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it's at that point where

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the loneliness really hits hard . So

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I encourage you , if you're not in a

26:30

moment of grief , but you know someone who is , give

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yourself that few weeks and

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then check in with them and then

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invite them to go do something and then

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ask them how can I help ? I

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think that is such a powerful question . Rather

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than let me know if you need anything , how

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can I help ? How can I support you ? I

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want to remind you , though , I'm not a grief

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coach . I've been there , I

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get it , I feel it , I know it , I've

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experienced it and

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I'm here for you . How

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can I support you ? Thanks

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so much for spending a little time with me today

27:10

on the Lemon Balm Coaching Podcast . I

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hope you're walking away with something that sparks

27:15

joy , hope or a fresh perspective

27:17

for your journey . If you loved today's

27:19

episode , let's keep the conversation going

27:21

. You can find more inspiration

27:23

, coaching tips and resources over at my

27:25

website , LemonBalmcoachingcom . Don't

27:28

forget to follow me on social media for encouragement

27:30

and updates , and you'll find me on Instagram and

27:33

Facebook at Lemon Balm Coaching . And

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hey , if you're looking for a supportive , uplifting

27:37

community of amazing women just

27:40

like you , come join us in the Reignite

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your Flame Facebook group . It's a safe

27:44

, welcoming space where we share , grow and

27:46

cheer each other on , and you can find the link

27:48

on my website or just search for Reignite

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your Flame on Facebook . Remember , honey

27:53

, just be yourself . The world

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needs what only you have to offer . Take

27:57

care and I'll see you in the next episode .