This is Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby and you're listening to the Love, Happiness, and Success

podcast.

Our musical intro is a band called Hayes with a song Out of Flux, which I thought was the perfect mood setter for our topic today.

As I'm sure you well know, we have all been through so much this past year and are hopefully now on the cusp of rebuilding.

But that's why I wanted to speak today to my guest, Eileen Robertson Hamra, who has a

powerful message reminding us that within every loss are the seeds of renewal and rebirth

and that it's a process sometimes to find them. So she's here today to share

her story and also her wise advice for how to heal through grief, how to rebuild your life after

setbacks, and most importantly, how to find love after loss. Eileen, welcome.

Thank you.

Thank you for having me.

Thank you.

Well, I am, I mean, I am familiar with your story, but of course my listeners aren't.

And we can't really understand you without understanding that story.

So I know you've written about this

extensively in your book, A Time to Fly, but I'm wondering if you would be willing to start by

just sharing your story with my listeners. Yes. So the story I share about in the book and

that we're here to talk about is unfortunately in December,

on December 22, 2011, my husband was flying to join myself and we had three young kids at

the time who were four, seven, and eight.

And we had gone back east.

We were living in California.

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