Hi friends, welcome to our final episode of this week. And if you've been tuning in since Monday,

we are deep in our feelings this week talking about and feeling our sadness and grief.

Today, I want to offer you a practice that I know I've offered a couple

times before throughout the years of hosting this podcast. I want you to give yourself a really

good cry. Now, this is an actual self-care practice. It's not something that's just you're going to wait around for the moment to happen. And maybe you're in that space in life where you don't usually have to wait very long for the next great big cry. Or maybe it's been a long time since you had a good cry. And it's not something that you immerse yourself in freely and willingly all the time, right?

Depending on where we're at in life, sometimes crying is easy, sometimes the tears feel so far away.

Both are okay and allowed.

But what I want for this practice is for you to give yourself an actual dedicated space to feel.

Just like you would schedule your meditation practice or schedule your yoga practice or how you go to the gym or you go to your therapist.

Scheduling out time to feel your feelings with the intention of tears and for sadness to come through.

Now that doesn't mean that that's what's going to be there when you actually show up for yourself,

but it's the intention that we're setting.

If there is something needed to be cried for, if there are tears wanting to come through,

setting the intention for that space to actually be held for you by you.

So you are going to make yourself the saddest playlist you could possibly think of. And if you can't

think of one, I have a bunch.

If you go to Yoga Girl on Spotify, I have one called sadness. There's another one called

tears. There's a couple of very emotional playlist that I have there in my little roster.

You can just pick one of those if you like. But it's a good practice to gather emotional songs so that you have

playlists dedicated for different moments in your life. So either making it your own or using one

of mine. Once you have that space, make sure you're in private. So if it's in your bedroom,

lock the door, make sure your phone is put away, you have no distractions.

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