Hi, guys, welcome to the Wabi Sunday podcast. This is episode number 39. It's called She Handles Pain. That shit's amazing. Thanks Ariana Grande, again, for a great title. You're the cutest with

your pony. We are recording from Hollywood this week, and I've been at ENews and NBC Universal

all week, so very exciting stuff. I hope you guys caught up on my e-news segments. They're on my Instagram account

at Candace Kumai. You can watch them at any time. And they're also going to be on my IG TV.

So you can check out what I've been working on. I've actually been a regular on e-news for the last

eight years. And what's so great about starting off our topic on how to handle pain.

One of the number one ways I think I worked on pain through a lot of my tough times, and this could

include anything from like a job loss to maybe you're going through a health scare or maybe you're, you just found out,

you know, the person that you're with is cheating on you or you found out that you're, you know,

I don't know, maybe you're thinking of breaking up with your significant other, whatever it is.

Pain is pain.

And, you know, we were never really taught how to deal with emotion.

So we were probably shown how to deal with it by our parents.

And so because I grew up in a Buddhist and Catholic and Christian household, it was like, you did not show pain in our household or emotion.

So my sister and I grew up, you know, like we had spoken about before on previous podcasts in a hard knock family where you just kept a straight face and you carried on and you'll

watch a powerful new ad come out with Nike this week and serena Williams did a captivating job

narrating this i couldn't have said it better myself and it correlates

with what we're talking about today and better ways that we can cope and handle pain.

Because let's be frank, it's really attractive when you see a confident woman who knows how to handle it and handle it with grace.

And there's a difference between allowing yourself to grieve and to be sad and angry and to learn and grow. And then there's a difference between that and being

like overtly dramatic about everything in your life. We all have depression and anxiety. It's just a

measure of how deep and how much time and space and energy you're going to allow yourself to go through the tough

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