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Today's episode is an excerpt from David Kessler's commune course,

Help for the Hurting Heart,

which guides you through the grieving process in a way that leaves you feeling at

peace and inspired to create a life of meaning after your loss.

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slash grief. This particular lesson discusses the topic of carried wounds, our trauma, from long ago.

Now, often there is an event in our childhood that occurs that becomes a story that we tell

ourselves about ourselves.

That narrative becomes part of our core belief system.

Now you are not the author of the facts, but you do have the power to change the story

you tell yourself and other people.

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I hope you enjoy this lesson with the ever insightful David Kessler.

So as we talk about these old wounds, we carry them with us. And our old wounds, we project those onto our new grief.

So we have the grief, but they're also colored by our old wounds. So I can remember I was doing

a TV show where I was counseling someone on the TV show

and I didn't have a lot of time with them and it's interesting. They said, this happened,

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