Hey friends, I have a very special episode that I wanted to rerun for you today around

life after loss. I'm posting this episode on Memorial Day, which, you know, in the

Western world anyway, is the unofficial beginning of summer, right? And for many people, it's basically a pool party

and good for them. And for many others of us, Memorial Day is so much more. It's a day to

remember our lost loved ones. And so I really wanted to repost this life after loss episode for you for a

couple of reasons and also share a personal story. So I originally recorded this episode with my

colleagues, Lisa and Anastasia, both of whom are excellent grief counselors here at growing self-counseling and coaching

our practice. And little did I know that only a couple weeks later, my own mother would

pass away traumatically and unexpectedly from COVID. This was May of 2020. She passed away on the night of May the 3rd,

2020, and I had scheduled this episode several weeks in advance to post on May the 4th of 2020.

It felt like just a tiny bit of magic in a very dark moment. A little message

from the universe that there is help, there is guidance, there is support for me and also for you.

Obviously, the weeks, months and heck, who's kidding, years, right?

After my mom passed away, have been very difficult on so many levels. And have also brought a lot of

peace and healing as well. And I think in no small part, I was helped enormously by the words of wisdom that my

colleagues, Anastasia and Lisa shared with me that day. I thought many times of the conversation

that we had together. And the things that they talked about helped me enormously through that time as

well as other resources that I was able to cobble together. But I just, I wanted to offer this up

for you again with this personal note and just a lot of empathy. If you are one of the, you know,

million people, no, gosh, we've lost a million people.

I think for every person that passed away from COVID, nine are left in their wake to suffer

and try to put themselves back together again in the aftermath. So that's a lot of people.

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