Hello and welcome to Happy Place with me, Fern Cotton. Today I'm chatting to

someone who not only has infinite wisdom but has also been both a friend and

a mentor to me. It's Donna Lancaster. Most wild animals will run away from the

storm so storms coming and always a running running running and what are they

doing? They're extending their pain and their distress because the storm's

coming and so what buffaloes do they're so wise is they are one of few wild

animals that turns around and runs towards the storm and through the eye of

the storm why to temporarily feel the extremities of it and then move through

it. Donna has worked as a coach and therapist for more than 30 years and she's

the co-creator of the bridge retreat. The bridge was a deep dive retreat that a

few of my friends had been on and had waxed lyrical about telling me how

utterly game-changing it was. The bridge isn't still active as a retreat but

Donna has written a book with the same name explaining the exact process that

everybody will have gone through during those amazing life-affirming retreats.

Donna has such a brilliant way of explaining and exploring grief and not just

grief in the way we generally think of it the loss of a loved one for example

but really the heartbreak that comes with losing parts of ourselves whether

you're mourning a loss of health the loss of a childhood maybe a loss of your

creativity all those feelings are valid and can be worked through both mentally

and physically. This episode of Happy Place is brought to you by Dyson and their

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