Hi, I'm Dr. Amy Robbins and welcome to life, death, and the Space Between podcast.

I'm a clinical psychologist and medium, and here we explore life, death, consciousness, and what it all means.

This is my last podcast of the year, And first of all, I wanted to thank everybody

for listening, for continuing to share your experiences with the podcast, to share your ghost

stories with me, to share your love of the podcast with others. I'm so grateful for your support, your messages, your emails, just sharing

how the podcast has impacted you. It makes such a difference to me and really is the reason that I do

the podcast. So as I thought about what to say for this year's final podcast, I knew I wanted to do a eulogy

for 2020.

It just seemed appropriate given everything that's gone on and given a lot of what I talk about.

But I didn't know how to write it or exactly what to say.

I looked up quotes. I tried to find some sort of inspiration and I even sat down and wrote a little. But everything I wrote sounded and felt

forced and inauthentic. And there's nothing that I dislike more than forced or inauthenticity.

So as time was running out, I wanted to get this recorded so I could take some time off

for the holidays and just recharge for the new year.

And I trusted that I would have this podcast ready to go.

I did what I tend to do in these situations, which is to ask for help.

And sometimes, and sometimes more often than I'd like it to, that help insight or intuition

comes at the most inopportune times for me. And that happens to be usually when I'm in the shower,

likely because it's a time when I'm fully present

and uninterrupted. And so this episode, this eulogy to 2020, as I'm calling it, was no different.

So here is what came to me. So to 2020, the year that crammed all of life into 365 days.

Literally, it felt like all of life was right here, waiting, showing us each and everything

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