Hi, I'm Dr. Amy Robbins and welcome to the life, death, and space between podcast.

I'm a licensed clinical psychologist and medium.

I know it seems like a strange combination, but that gives me a unique view of life and death.

Death can be scary. I get that. That's why I'm doing this. I want to help people explore life, death, and what it all means. We are born and we

die. What we do in the middle is the space between. Christina Rasmussen is an acclaimed grief editor, an author of Second Firsts, and Where Did You Go?

Both of which she has written after she lost her husband

at the age of 35 to cancer. She is the founder of the Life Reentry Institute and has helped

countless people break out of what she coined the waiting room of grief to rebuild their

lives through her life reentry model. With this, she introduces a new model of grief based on the science of neuroplasticity.

She describes grief as a catalyst for redefining identity and outlines the process of reentry

or returning to life.

Her mission is to change the way we grieve, the way we live,

and how we define our potential in this life and hereafter.

Here is Christina's story.

Christina was devastated after the death of her husband when he was just 35.

With two small children, she was not sure how she would go on.

So after my husband passed away in 2006, Amy, I was so distraught and so devastated that I thought I was going to die to.

And I had two little kids to take care of.

And for people who don't know me, I did my master's in counseling psychology in the UK. And I also did my thesis on the stages of bereavement

because I was in awe of anyone who could help others who lost their loved ones. I would call myself

as someone who loved people so much that I couldn't possibly imagine losing them.

That's why I had turned to studying grief even prior to what happened. And I remember my professor at the time saying,

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