Hello everybody and welcome to the mindful kind.

I'm your host, Rachel Cable, and I'm here to share insights into my mindfulness journey

and inspire you to create your own.

Each week, this podcast will bring fresh and exciting news about mindfulness,

from my personal experiences to useful tools and different

mindful techniques.

Hello and a warm welcome to episode 96 of the Mindful Kind podcast and part two of the grief and loss episodes.

Thank you so, so much to everyone who shared their lovely feedback after part one of this

episode last week. It meant a lot to me to hear how the different stories and advice resonated

with some of my listeners and helped them feel less alone in their grief. I still have quite a few

stories to share from my community, so I'm going to just dive straight in. Just quickly,

I want to remind you that this topic can be difficult for some people and may trigger sadness

or difficult memories. If this happens for you, please feel free to skip the episode and

come back to it later on, or maybe seek some extra support.

The first story I'm going to share was from May, who was 13 years old when she saw her dad in his car, on the way home from a business trip with a woman who wasn't her mother.

From there, things quickly spiraled and her family and May had to deal with many challenging experiences,

including telling her mum the truth and feeling guilty for being suspicious of her dad and then seeing her dad's lives unravel.

The next day, her mom was distraught and told May that she hadn't come from her tummy and had actually been adopted.

May felt confused and experienced a huge range of emotions,

including anger and sadness, abandonment and isolation. Just reading May's story, I felt overwhelmed

by her experiences which unfolded in such a short amount of time and at such a young age.

I can only imagine how difficult that would have been.

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