Hello and welcome back to practicing human. The podcast where every day we're getting a little better at life.

I am your host, Corey Muscarra, tuning in from Punta Mita, Mexico.

In today's episode, I'm going to talk about those moments when we're

more or less just in survival mode,

and how to make space for that.

More to come on it in a moment.

First, let's tune into the sound of the bells.

The So a lot of the conversation in this podcast is about cultivating a quality of peace, joy,

optimizing the goodness in your life, mitigating discomfort,

and developing the skills to experience life a little more fully and gracefully.

But there are other times in life, other experiences we might go through, we're just in survival mode,

moments of intense pain, trauma, grieving.

These are often experiences where we're just grieving. to be peace per se and we might lose some of our access to our mindfulness skills or even

our ability to ground ourselves because the pain and the emotions are so overwhelming.

And this is okay. This is a natural part of the human experience and

it's helpful to remember that you come from a long lineage of humans for thousands of years who have endured great suffering and have made it through it.

So it's very much within your DNA and your wiring to experience these things and be able to move through to the other side.

I think that's helpful to remember.

And I also think it's helpful to remember and I also think it's helpful to remember that you don't need to be super present or peaceful or grounded or mindful in these moments.

It's okay to cry, to feel, to be confused, to be angry,

to wail, to just want to run away.

All of this is very much a part of processing,

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