Hi, just checking in, seeing how you're doing today.

And seeing if you might want to take a little break.

Step away from the noise of the world for just a moment and connect back with you.

If so, let's take a deep breath in and then breathe out and let it all settle. I'm your

host, Michael Gallion, and this is letting it settle. Now, before we begin, I want to offer you a gentle reminder if you are carrying grief today,

whether it's been days or months or years since your loss. There is no timeline for healing.

There is no schedule that grief is supposed to follow. There is no moment when you

should be done feeling what you are feeling. Grief is not a problem to solve or a phase to

rush through. It's a love with nowhere to go. Love that still needs to be expressed,

even though the person, the relationship, the dream, or the version of life that you are grieving,

is no longer here in the way that it once was. If grief is showing up for you unexpectedly today,

triggered by a song on the radio, or the smell of someone's perfume or a random memory that

surfaced on a Tuesday morning, you haven't done anything wrong. You're not going backwards. You're not broken or

stuck or weak. You're human. And humans grieve because humans love. The depth of your grief is a

testament to the depth of your love, and both of those deserve

to be honored.

So what I want to offer you today is this.

You can learn to be present with grief when it arrives unexpectedly without being consumed by it.

You can create space for your feelings while still living your life.

You can honor what you've lost while still opening to what's here.

And you can trust that these unexpected visits from grief are often your heart's way of

processing love that still needs tending. A few years ago, I worked with someone who taught me something very interesting about how grief arrives in unexpected moments.

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