Thank you for joining us for episode 448 of Live Happy Now.

Managing grief is a challenge at any time of the year, but during the holidays, it becomes even more difficult.

So today, we're talking about how to navigate your grief during the holiday season.

I'm your host, Paula Phelps, and today I'm sitting down with Gina Moffa, a licensed

psychotherapist and mental health educator who specializes in treating trauma and grief.

Her new book, Moving On Doesn't Mean Letting Go, offers new tools and perspectives for managing

grief and loss, and she's here to talk with me about how we can manage our own grief

and how to provide support to others who are grieving this holiday season.

Let's have a listen.

Gina, happy holidays.

Hi, Paula.

Happy holidays to you.

I am so excited to be able to talk to you today because it's a difficult time for a lot of people right now.

And, and of course, I wanted to, you know, there's so many things that are going on.

So many people I know that are experiencing loss.

You know, I talked about that a little bit before, you know, before we started recording.

And it just really led me to say, you know, once again,

I feel like this is a topic of that we need to sit down and discuss

because we don't talk about grief quite enough.

And I wanted to start by talking about your own experience,

because in your terrific new book, you talk about when you lost your mother, even though you

had been doing this work with others, it was different when it happened to you. So I love that

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