Hey y'all, welcome back to the Don't Mom Alarm Podcast.

I'm your host Heather McFadian and this is the place where I get to walk alongside

you and connect you with people and resources so you know that you don't mom alone.

And in this episode number 362, I am welcoming back on the show, Shana Nequist.

And I was in the most intense stretch of pain.

I thought I'm never writing again and I'm never connecting with people on a deep level.

Again, I'm never opening my heart or my home to anyone ever again.

And those are okay things to feel.

And also, if I let my own vocation, my own calling, my own greatest passions, be lost

in the middle of all this pain, what a tragedy, right?

Enough things were taken from me.

I did not have to give up some of my greatest joys and callings, which are writing and hospitality.

Shana has come on the show twice before and links to those episodes are in the show notes.

She came in 2015 and the last time was in 2016.

A lot has happened since that time in her life and maybe you can relate because we all walk

through seasons of transition, whether we leave something behind by choice or that choice

was made for us.

And life after a disruptive event or during that transition can feel like starting over,

just as much as a move clear across the country.

You may be asking the question, who am I here?

Even familiar places and routines.

And Shana encourages us in what to hold on to, what to let go of in those seasons of

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