Welcome back to We Can Do Hard Things. Before we dive in today, Pod Squad, we want to send you off into this

holiday season with so much love. Our hope for you is peaceful, cozy, slow days with your people,

full of warmth, gentleness, and rest. This, however, will be our last episode of the year. We're taking

two weeks off, and then we will return on the first Tuesday of the new year, January 6th. Today,

we're sending you into the season with something special. The conversation I had recently at

the Kripaloo Center in Massachusetts, hosted by the brilliant, warm, and deeply wise

Isset Rose. She is an artist, a healer, a thought leader, and truly one of the most grounding

presences I've sat with. We got to the heart of so many themes we've been circling lately on this

pod in a room full of beautiful, beautiful people. We talked about how to not abandon our own agency,

how to stay with ourselves in the hard moments,

how to let the old scripts burn so something new and truer can grow,

how to reimagine our relationships in ways that deepen connection,

how menopause and midlife are horrific and also somehow

quite spiritually important, and how enoughness can feel like death when we've been raised

inside of capitalism.

And we talked about the work we will need to do the grieving work, the healing work, the work of

changing the metrics of our lives so we can live inside

what is real and right now and stop arranging our existence around the next thing. As we wind down

2025, it was a doozy, wasn't it, Pod Squad, and once again, we made it through together.

We love you. We're grateful for you.

We look forward to meeting you again on the other side of this holiday season.

We'll see you in 26.

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