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Hey friends, it's Rosie here.

Welcome to Radio Headspace and to Wednesday.

A few days after the fires, I found myself scrolling through stories of people rebuilding,

people who had just lost everything and were already thinking about what was next.

And I thought, how?

How do you wake up the next day and figure out how to move forward when everything is different?

When the home you built, the life you knew, or the person you loved is suddenly gone.

We've spent this week talking about loss, about what we grieve, what it means, and how it changes us.

But today, I want to talk about something even harder. What comes after? Because grief isn't just about the past. It's about the future, too.

And after we lose something, someone, we're left with the question that feels impossible to answer.

How do we begin again? And yet, somehow, we do. Not because we're ready, but because life just

keeps on moving, even when we don't want it to.

And at some point, we have to find a way to move with it.

So let's talk about it.

Grief doesn't have to have a clean ending.

It's not a chapter we finish and close and just move on.

It lingers. It reshapes us. It shows up in unexpected ways.

And yet, the human spirit is also resilient. There's a moment for some of us, a very intentional

moment where we have to choose to take a step forward, not because we feel ready, but because

that's how healing begins.

A few years ago, a friend of mine shared something with me after her father had passed away.

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