Welcome back to the show, my darling friends. I hope you are doing well today. This

week is a hard week for me and this episode that you're about to listen to is a

very, very vulnerable tender soft raw open-hearted one. We just said goodbye to one of our

family dogs this week and it's been a very precious painful time. I share the

journey of dogs today. I share the journey of love and letting go and gratitude and

joy and grief and just that magical bond that only a dog really can bring. And I'm

so grateful I get to share the story and I get to speak these words. They were

very healing to share and I hope you find some healing here too.

Hi everybody. Hi, hi, hi. Welcome back to the show. Welcome back to the your

girl podcast. I have been pacing myself. I've been trying to prepare myself. I've

been trying to to process as much as possible before sitting down to record this

week's podcast because I am I am in a place right now that feels almost too tender

almost too raw and vulnerable and I very rarely feel that way with the pod you

know. And the strange thing about this podcast and how intimate it is and how my

my storytelling and my sharing here is it's so intimate it's really crazy

intimate. I really sit down every week and I and I just open my heart and I

pour my heart out and I share whatever is true and real and every time I sit

down to record I feel like I'm sitting down to talk to a friend. So there's no

way for me to be going through something and to fake it. You know, I feel like

if this podcast was less intimate or less real, I could yeah, I could make

something up for this week. I could I could choose a topic and I could go, hey

today we're going to talk about foraging, you know, and then I would just have

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