Hi everyone welcome back to the lavendare lifestyle the

podcast on lifestyle design for millennials my name's Eileen and I'm here to guide you to become a master artist of life.

You can create the life that you've always imagined.

Life is an art.

Make it your masterpiece.

After shining fiercely through the day,

the sun sets upon the calm waters.

She's gone. And here I marvel at all the life she's brought into the world, all the beauty that remains.

That's the caption that I posted with my Instagram photo of a sunset on water when my

grandmother passed away last week. It's funny because my last podcast episode

was about how to handle overwhelm where I was talking about

how many things were happening in my life and I was just like doing so many things

that I was almost overwhelmed but I was finding a way to handle it and be positive about it.

Well, that day that that podcast episode was posted, like my grandmother had a stroke that left her brain half dead, and so she was in a coma for the entire week before

she slowly passed and so once that happened like I kind of dropped everything my world kind of shifted a little bit

because it went from being like,

go, go, crazy, crazy, crazy, to like,

oh, I need to slow down and shift my priorities

and really put my time and energy to my family because I just knew I had to be there for family and just be with my grandma for her last days and it was like a really big bonding week and it's still going on like all my

cousins and aunts uncles everyone just like hung out at my grandma's house every

single day just like talking to her while she's in her sleep and just kind of giving her

our love and our thanks, our appreciation and kind of saying our goodbyes and telling her not

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