This podcast is a part of the Maisie Media Network, a podcast where we obsess over giving women the tools that they need to choose

happiness and create joyful moments.

I am your host, best-selling author and lifestyle blogger Ty Alexander and I'm basically

I'm basically your new one that's hype girl so welcome to the party.

I'm so corny. Anyway, before we take a deep dive into today's episode, I want to remind you to be sure to rate, review, and subscribe on iTunes if you've enjoyed the podcast so far.

You can also head over to our website, heal.com to explore our spiritual toolbox, which is filled with gems that I have curated to help you cultivate those much needed life shifting healing experiences. So as you can tell from the title this

episode has the potential. It has the potential to become really heavy but I'm going to try and not turn this into a tear

fest for you because I want you to really receive what I have to say.

And I think that my perspective and my experience of death is not the norm.

And I always like to challenge people to receive a different narrative than the one that they've been used to using. So if you've never heard my voice before today and you don't know my story or you're just wondering, you know, why to tie, you know, shift gears to focus more on wellness let me give you a little insight my my life

dramatically changed in 2012 when my mother was diagnosed with stage 4 lymphoma. From there

her health declined rapidly and when I say rapidly I mean she was diagnosed in July of 2012, and we buried my mother in April of 2013.

And for me, it really does feel like she was here one minute and then dead the next in less than a year

maybe eight months my mother was snatched from our lives but I have to credit my mother as

the person who encouraged me to explore my own mental wellness.

And she really opened my eyes to what death really is and what death really means.

And just how absolutely beautiful that time can be for the person dying, for you and your family,

especially if death is greeted with patience and support and understanding and faith and love.

Now I do have a small disclaimer because looking back I understand that how I got to experience my mother's death isn't exactly how everyone

will be able to experience death.

So this episode is more so it's really to help you do the work now just in case you're not as fortunate

as I was and you don't get eight months to say goodbye to your loved one. When my mom was diagnosed as terminally ill, death became

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