Welcome to Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore.

Have you ever experienced loss or experienced grief in your life?

Well, when you've been on planet Earth for a while, it is inevitable to all of us.

And no one can speak about this subject with more love and compassion than the incredible Chris Carr, who is our

guest today. Chris is a multiple New York Times best-selling author a wellness activist and a cancer

thriver. She's been called a Force of Nature by O magazine and was named a new

role model by the New York Times. I absolutely adore

Chris and her latest book not a morning person absolutely blew me away like Chris I lost my dad and how she

shares her experience with humor with compassion with just being so real. I wish everyone could listen to this conversation.

I think you'll laugh, I think you'll find some deep insights and probably really just feel seen and hard. That is our wish for you.

My friends, I give you the one and only Chris Carr.

Chris Carr, congratulations on your beautiful book. I'm not a morning person. Thank you so much for being on

Let It Be Easy Podcast. Thanks for having me, Susie. I absolutely adore you. I'm so

grateful to be here. Now this book is not to be confused with morning routines or

setting up or waking up at 5 a.m.

Absolutely unrelated to anything AM. It's I mean Chris this book it moved me like I was

tearful in places the thing that came up the most most as I read it was I think probably how much courage it must

have taken you to speak about your dad Ken and losing him. I mean how long did this book take you and was it as hard as I can

imagine it probably was to put it together? It did take a bit because you know it's a

big story and it was definitely a labor of love and and and all of

the fields that come with something that you're so deeply committed to.

It took me about two and a half years to write and to tell you the honest truth I

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