Once you start to take action,

not from the survivor thought,

but from the watcher thought,

you start to thrive.

Welcome to the Lavendaret Lifestyle, the podcast on personal growth and lifestyle design.

My name is Eileen and I'm here to guide you to shine as your brightest self and create your dream life.

We all have a light within and the power to create a life we love.

Every Sunday we'll share thoughtful conversations exploring how we can build a better future for ourselves and our world. Life is an art, make it your masterpiece.

Hello my loves, welcome back to the Lavendear Lifestyle Podcast, it's Eileen. Today's episode is on grief and overcoming loss, whether it's loss of our loved ones or loss of

parts of ourselves.

The latter is actually what we'll focus more on today, what our guest calls invisible losses.

Listen on to learn about what invisible losses are, how they keep us stuck in life, and how to move on from these losses to live our most

joyful authentic and vibrant lives. I'm happy to introduce our guest Christina

Rasmussen. Christina Rasmussen is an acclaimed grief educator and best-selling author of

second firsts where did you go and invisible loss. In 2010, four years after her

35-year-old spouse passed away from stage 4 colon cancer, she created

the life reentry process, which launched her on a mission to bring compassion, grace,

and validation to thousands while simultaneously establishing an exit

from what she termed the waiting room.

Christina holds a master's degree in guidance and counseling from the University of Durham.

She is currently finishing her master of fine arts degree in painting and drawing at the Academy of Art.

Her grief work has been featured on ABC News and in Women's World,

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