49. A Pause for Jane
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Ashlie Molstad
4.2 • 940 Ratings
🗓️ 19 October 2023
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Episode 49: A Pause for Jane
My husband's mom died on Saturday, and nothing has felt right since. I will do another episode on managing though and processing grief at some point, but today I just want to share with you something that has helped me in past times of grief, and I hope that it also brings you some amount of comfort, even if tiny, as you wade through the wreckage of saying a final goodbye to a loved one.
Thank you for tuning in. This week, my ask of you is to call your parents, or book the trip, or plan the dinner. I know it's cliche, but these people are so precious, and tomorrow isn’t guaranteed.
Love you, now go love your people (and yourselves) well.
Xo
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, all you beautiful humans. |
| 0:02.0 | Today is a little bit of a different episode, |
| 0:04.0 | and it's going to be a quick one, |
| 0:06.0 | because it's all I have right now to give you. |
| 0:08.0 | If you haven't heard, I don't know when you're listening to this, |
| 0:11.0 | maybe you're listening to it to the day that it launches but maybe this is way later and so you're like no I don't know what's going on but on Saturday night last Saturday we got the call that no one ever wants to get about anyone that they love but that John's mom has passed away |
| 0:26.3 | John's my husband is mom is his hero and I can't think of anything to tell you. It feels a little bit like we're swimming through some sort of |
| 0:36.2 | tsunami and our feet haven't quite hit the ground yet. Earlier, last week I had one of our friends lost their dog of 13 years and I |
| 0:46.7 | sent her this thing that helped me when we were in the midst of the the |
| 0:51.0 | deepest grief I've ever felt up until this point was for our dog Brewer six years ago or so she passed away and I remember just thinking |
| 1:01.4 | You know I opened my front door and I was looking out at the neighborhood and I was seeing cars driving. |
| 1:06.4 | And I was thinking, how is the world still spinning? How have we continued to move forward when our world has stopped? |
| 1:14.8 | So I sent my friend this and I'm going to read it to you today. |
| 1:19.3 | In case you're going through grief or needing a little tiny iota miniscule ounce of comfort because |
| 1:27.5 | there's nothing that we can really do. There's no words to say something like this happens that's going to make anything better. |
| 1:35.2 | We just have to feel it and lean in and let it take us over and hope we come out the other |
| 1:41.6 | side at some point, but fully you know we'll never be the same |
| 1:45.8 | without these people or these animals or these souls or our beloved's in our lives but |
| 1:51.3 | apparently this quote that I'm going to read you was I think originally on like a |
| 1:56.0 | Reddit page or something and I just think it's beautiful. So here we go. |
| 2:01.0 | As for grief, you'll find it comes in waves. |
| 2:03.6 | When the ship is first wrecked, you're drowning, with wreckage all around you. |
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