Welcome back to We Can Do Hard Things.

Today we are hearing more from our beloved Abby Wombach

about when her brother died.

Go back to the last episode and please listen. We're discussing what has been one of the hardest

and most beautiful experiences of Abby's life losing her beloved brother Peter last year at the end of last year.

And at the end of the last episode, she talked about how the grief,

one way to look at it opened up a portal that allowed her to really grieve a lot of other things in her life,

allowed her to learn some things about the way she wants to move forward in life, and she has told us she'll talk to us about those things

that she learned and is learning during this past year because the grief doesn't

as far as I've seen it hasn't gone anywhere.

You might be changing or but it's just there right the grief is still there that's

happened in the end of December,

2023.

What do you want to tell us about what you've been learning?

Well, interestingly, I've done as much research as I can trying to figure out grief logically.

It's like all my books about embodiment. I will learn embodiment through these eight books.

Please see this PowerPoint presentation regarding embodiment.

Or my 12 books I have on minimalism on this shelf over here.

The only way I can explain grief is that it's just like a friend who's with me all the time.

And sometimes it's sad and sometimes it's not. Sometimes it's happy in some ways.

Sometimes I can be in grief around thinking about my brother, you know, like my parents used to vacation

down in Florida for the winters. They were like snowbirds and when I was mid-teens they got this

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