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What's up loves. Welcome to self-care in real life, a podcast where we obsess over

giving women the tools that they need to choose happiness and create more joyful moments.

I am your host, best-selling author and lifestyle blogger, Taya Alexander,

and I'm basically your new wellness hype girl, so welcome to the party.

Before we take a deep dive into today's episode, I want to remind you to please be sure to

rate, review and subscribe on iTunes if you've enjoyed the podcast so far.

For my faithful listeners who are used to ad-free podcast episodes, we now have them for you

over on our exclusive membership community on Patreon. That's p-a-t-r-e-o-n.com slash self-care

IRL. In addition to the ad-free podcast episodes, you will also find all of the gems that I have

created for you to help you cultivate life-shifting helium experiences. So let's get right into today's

episode. I've always considered myself to be a pretty emotionally sturdy person. I've done

therapy at different stages of my life as a child, as a teenager, and now periodically as an adult.

But when my mom died, that grief hit me like a trillion still buckets filled with piping hot lava.

I know that's dramatic, but it's what it felt like. What I learned early in grief was that none of

us are above the dark space grief enjoys to torture us with. And from time to time, you might be

feeling like you're unable to handle your grief. It is so cliche to say, but the hurt and pain you

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