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Hi, y'all. This is house guest, and I am your host, Kenzie Elizabeth. Think Gen Z,

wannabe Martha Stewart meets Dolly Parton, trying to live in a Nancy Myers movie in her 20s.

We talk all about life, relationships, navigating your 20s, closing out the the bars or waking up at 5 a.m.

Depending on our vibe that week. Ultimately living our best lives and figuring it out along the way.

So come hang out. Sometimes I have guests on who do really cool things, some of my best friends,

or it's just me in my house that I spend way too much time in. So let's get into the show.

Hi, house guests. Welcome back to my home. This week is, it's a solo, but I have a lot of submissions from y'all.

Today we are talking about grief, just kind of all across the board. I have touched on grief

so much in this podcast, like off and on in the past like two years, actually before that even. I haven't done like an actual sit down full grief episode. I've actually been kind of dreading it. I feel like I woke up this morning. I said two hours last night, but I also woke up this morning, like, anxious and I think I'm just like dreading it. But it is an important thing to do and it's a very important thing to talk about. The reason that I really wanted to record this episode and have y'all sent in all the submissions is not because, like, I don't have any answers. I don't have, like, real advice. I only have my experience. Like, what's helped me, but hasn't, you know, listening to other people. But I think more than anything, hearing from other people that have gone through similar experiences is so helpful in a ways can be really

healing. And on my grief journey, it's just been so helpful, especially like having the podcast.

I am really lucky in the sense that I get messages from people daily who have gone through,

you know, maybe something similar that I have. And so I know that I'm not alone. And I think

sometimes grief can just be a very isolating thing. So I wanted to do a nice little solo on The Matter. And yeah, if anyone said on anything, thank you guys so much. I really hope in this episode just brings you comfort. It's not going to bring like any sort of answer or healing or whatever. But I hope it gives you guys a little bit of comfort. And maybe just hearing from like some of the stories of hope, like years out of the line,

that's something that really helped me.

So without further ado, let's go to my couch.

Hello, everyone.

Welcome to the couch.

I don't know exactly how I'm going to go through this episode. As I was reading a lot of your messages in listening to the voicemails and stuff, it sparked so many things that I had like kind of forgotten about in grief or was like, oh my God, I so agree. So I think I'm just going to like give you a little bit of like my general background and story and just kind of like my initial thoughts, and then we're going to go through, like, the different messages and voicemails.

Like I said in the

intro, it really, at least for me, it's so comforting to know that I'm not the only person in the

entire world in experiencing loss and grief at such a young age too. I've had friends who have

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