How Abby Survived Her Biggest Loss

We Can Do Hard Things

Treat Media and Glennon Doyle

Relationships, Education, Self-improvement, Society & Culture

4.8 • 42.7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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340. How Abby Survived Her Biggest Loss Abby shares an intimate account of the loss of her eldest brother, Peter, at the end of 2023. She describes the emotional turmoil she’s experienced and how she’s coping with her family's grief, the planning of the service, and the overwhelming mix of emotions she continues to feel surrounding grief and death.

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0:13.8	Welcome to We Can Do Hard Things. Today, Abby is brave and generous enough
0:21.3	to share with us what happened to her and her family at the end of last year,
0:27.0	which was maybe the hardest thing that's ever happened to her.
0:33.0	I don't know we'll see how she frames it, but you, Pod Squad are invited into a very
0:40.0	beautiful space today.
0:42.0	We're going to talk about loss and love and grief.
0:45.0	To be fair, that's kind of always what we're talking about.
0:49.0	We're diving deep today.
0:51.0	Abby's going to tell us the story.
0:54.2	Let me just set the scene.
0:56.2	Great.
0:57.4	December 27th, 2023, you and me and the kids landed for our family vacation a couple days after
1:07.4	Christmas. We landed in a faraway place. We woke up the next morning. We went to breakfast. Would you like to
1:17.6	take it from there? Sure. Often when we travel with the kiddos, they like to sleep in. So Glennon and I woke up and we went down to
1:26.1	breakfast ourselves to drink some coffee and, you know, explore a little. We sat at the little restaurant and we had a cup of coffee and
1:36.4	Glennon said to me, I don't think we're supposed to be here. And I was like, the fuck is she talking about?
1:47.2	Because I had you like information that would have been helpful before we bought five very
1:51.8	expensive flights.
1:52.8	Yes, and also the kind of planning that goes into
1:58.0	and the time it takes to plan for a family vacation.
2:02.3	It's endless and it's like always ever changing because everybody has
2:06.7	opinions, etc. And so when she said this my feelings got hurt a little bit because
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