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Hey guys, welcome to Tommy Talk.

And today's topic is holding space for grief during the holidays.

So grief is a, it's a tricky thing because it never fully goes away.

And I talked about earlier this year how I lost my mentor.

And it's still very hard for me.

I mean, if anybody brings up loss or somebody passing away, I feel the tears instantly forming in the back of my eyes

desperate to come out. It's still fresh. And, you know, it's not something that I think about

necessarily every second of the day, but when something triggers a memory or triggers me to think about my mentor who passed,

I feel it and I instantly just want to break down and cry and fall apart.

And that's grief.

And that's grief.

It's a really complicated, understandably difficult thing to wrap your head around and it comes in waves and you don't ever

fully stop grieving somebody you lose or have lost especially when it's fresh especially when it

happened not too long ago so the holidays can really it can make it difficult because you want them

with you you feel the sense of nostalgia and togetherness,

and then you look at an empty chair at the table or a text that didn't come through or your empty

voicemails and you don't see the name that you so badly want to see. Or maybe it's a post on

Facebook. She loved Facebook that she would write every holiday season.

And those things are all not there anymore.

So it can be a really difficult thing to get through the season

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