Thank you for joining us for episode 395 of Live Happy Now.

Grief and loss is something all of us experienced throughout our lives, but it can be more difficult to manage during the holidays.

Could reframing the way we view it make it easier?

I'm your host, Paula Phelps, and this week I'm sitting down with Julia A. Nicholson,

an executive leadership expert who has made it her mission to help others transform the way they

view and manage loss. While she has enjoyed incredible success in business, Julia has also

suffered immense loss. Working through her grief led her to create a new framework for managing it

that she is now sharing with others in her upcoming book, Move Forward Stronger. In this episode,

Julia talks about living with unwanted change or loss and in particular how to handle it during

the holiday season. Let's have a listen.

Julia, welcome to Live Happy Now.

Thank you, Paula. I'm really so appreciative of you inviting me to be on your podcast.

This is a wonderful time of year to talk to you because I think grief and loss is something

we don't really address during the holidays.

And before we dive into your way of thinking and what you have to tell our listeners,

boy, you have such a powerful story. And I think it's really important to know how you became an

expert on loss. So can you walk us through a little bit of your backstory before we dive in?

Sure.

And thank you.

And I want to say right up front,

there is no one that sets out to be an expert on loss,

at least the way I have done it.

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