You're listening to the Vibrant Happy Women Podcast, episode number 259. We're talking in this episode

about grief and loss and how to move through those very strong emotions. Stay tuned.

Hi, I'm Jen Ritey, and this podcast is for women who want to feel more vibrant, happy, aligned, and alive.

You'll gain the emotional, physical, and spiritual tools you need to get your sparkle back

and ensure that depression, anxiety, and struggle don't rule your life.

Welcome to the Vibrant Happy Women Podcast.

Hey there, my friends.

We're talking about grief today.

And you might hear that topic and think, oh, I'm out.

But I want to encourage you to stick around because we all go through grief and loss and death and transitions, health struggles, maybe a child goes to college, we all have

these moments where we're leaving a phase of our past behind. And it can feel big and heavy.

And how do we grieve properly so that we don't get stuck?

The fact is, there are a lot of shoulds in our world about how a person should grieve. You should do it

privately. It should last about two weeks, at least in the U.S. You should get over it. And these shoulds, no matter where

they're presented, they don't do a lot for us. They keep us pushed into a box, stuck, frustrated,

resentful. And I don't know about you, but I want to live true to my authentic self. I want to live wild and free

and to feel all of my feelings and to never let any of them get stuck, to feel the good, to feel the

bad. This world is 50-50, light and dark, life and death, easy and hard. And we want to feel it all. We want to be here and show up so

authentically, so fully, so real that we feel it all. And that includes our grief. So I'm talking to

my friend Julie Nol today, and she is a Canadian. I know you're

guessing where is she from, British Columbia. I don't even know what the universe is telling me,

but it just keeps going. She's from a different island, not from Vancouver Island, where

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