349: How to Handle Grief (with Kitt Rothstein)
Vibrant Happy Women
Jen Riday
4.8 • 671 Ratings
🗓️ 25 July 2023
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Life comes with its share of curve balls, which can leave us feeling overwhelmed with emotion. In this episode, my best friend, Kitt Rothstein, and I talk about her 18-month journey of grief that culminated with the death of her amazing husband, Blake, on July 3, 2023.
What You'll Learn:
- What to do when your life suddenly doesn't match what you had planned.
- How Kitt was miraculously prepared in advance for her journey of grief.
- Why a grief journey can be both terrible and beautiful.
- How grief can be like a CD-ROM.
- The reason we often need someone to witness our grief rather than fix our grief.
- And much more!
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Vibrant Happy Women podcast. Today I'm talking with my best friend Kit |
| 0:06.1 | about her recent year and a half long journey of grief. Stay tuned. Are you ready to expand your |
| 0:14.4 | soul's capacity for joy? Then this podcast is for you. I'm Dr. Jen Ridey and welcome to Vibrant Happy Women. Hey, my friends, I'm back. |
| 0:25.2 | And I want to tell you why I haven't been releasing very many podcast episodes this year. |
| 0:31.2 | 18 months ago, my best friend's husband was diagnosed with prostate cancer, very aggressive prostate cancer. His name is Blake. |
| 0:39.5 | My best friend is Kit. She's been on this podcast before. And it was shocking because he was only |
| 0:48.3 | 50 years old at the time of diagnosis. And they did a chemo journey. And then a year ago, this month, they found out |
| 0:56.6 | the chemo hadn't worked and the doctor gave him six months to live. That was so shocking. |
| 1:03.4 | I want to back up a little bit and scribe Kit and Blake to you. I met Kit and Madison |
| 1:09.0 | well over a decade ago. And she's super tall like me. We're both six |
| 1:15.0 | foot tall. And she is super authentic and loving. I think she has the superpower of being a friend. |
| 1:23.5 | Those of you who have been at the Vibr women retreat may have met kit she's been at a |
| 1:28.5 | couple of them and if you've met her you love her to know kit is to love kit well blake the same way |
| 1:36.1 | happy positive exciting funny the best people to be around they're so good at playing and hosting and cooking. Oh my gosh, the food. |
| 1:47.6 | So when I found out Blake was going to die, it hit me like a knife in my heart. So awful. So I have been |
| 1:55.5 | grieving this past year right along with my best friend Kit. In addition to that, I've had some |
| 2:00.3 | challenges with one of my kids |
| 2:01.9 | who is currently being officially diagnosed with autism, maybe some other stuff, and she ended up |
| 2:09.2 | leaving school to begin homeschooling. It was a year of big changes. Well, recently, on July 3rd, |
| 2:17.1 | Blake passed away. And I just have returned home from |
| 2:21.5 | spending time with Kit supporting her through the grief process. And while he was with Kit, |
| 2:26.7 | we recorded an episode for you about what it's been like for her. I personally think grief, |
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