Many of us look forward to December and holiday traditions, festivities and getting together.  However, sometimes in our excitement, we overestimate our capacity; we add all sorts of things into a schedule that is already busy!   It’s like trying to add 4 more hours a day to the the 24 hours a day we already have planned with our normal activities like sleeping, caring for our kids, doing work, caring for the house, and still hoping to get 24 hours! It’s bad math!  The whole reason most of us look forward to these things is because we anticipate they will bring us and others joy!  And when we try to cram too much in, we end up feeling overwhelmed, stressed out and disappointed….the exact opposite of why we wanted to do them in the first place.  On the podcast, we’re going to help identify if you might have some bad math this holiday season.  And, if so—how to improve your math so you can get the result you want. 

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Most of us have known someone at some time that was grieving.  If you’re like most people you want to help!  You don’t want the person to suffer.   But, it can be challenging sometimes to know how to help.  On the podcast this week, I share 5 common mistakes we may make in trying to help someone who as lost someone.

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Gratitude has physical and emotional benefits, particularly when it’s practiced regularly.  In this episode we discuss some of these benefits, how gratitude creates them, how gratitude isn’t something that happens to you, it’s something you can cultivate, and some fresh ideas about how to cultivate gratitude.

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In Grief Part 2 (episode #64), I shared my grief journey through the first two tasks of grief.  In this episode I continue sharing my grief journey through the last two tasks of grief which are adjusting to the new life without the loved one, and reinvesting in a new reality.   I found I was a bit like the little bird in PD Eastman's Book asking "Are you my mother?"  I share how I found her--and a new version of me after her passing.  

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The experience of grief journeys, the timelines, and the ways we find more normalcy and re-calibrate are different too.  In the second part of the interview with my siblings, we explore more about healing and help in grief. 

On this episode we’ll cover:

• What things were most helpful to you during your grief journey?
•  Was there anything you did or do that has helped?
• How are you different after this experience?

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Grief is as different as the number of people on earth.  But sometimes it’s easy to wonder if what we’re experiencing is “normal.”  I’m so thankful to my siblings for being willing to share about their varied grief experiences—it paints a picture of how different grief journeys can be for people who even lost the same person in the same way. 

On this episode we’ll cover:

•  Experiences of acute grief right after our mother’s passing
• Experience of longer-term grief over the past ten years
• A difficult part of grief
• Something that surprised us about grief

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This week on the podcast, I share my personal journey of grief around losing my mother.  I hope it will be helpful to you in your own grief journeys of loss.  There is something about other’s stories that can be more reassuring than science or models—other’s experiences can offer validation, understanding, empathy and connection.  I’m getting a bit more raw and personal in this podcast because that is exactly the nature of grief.  I talk about how I navigated the first 2 tasks of grief.  1) Accepting the reality of the loss.  2) Experiencing the pain of the loss.

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Ten years ago today, my mother passed away.  Grief isn’t something we plan or prepare for, so when it comes it’s often unexpected—even if someone’s death is expected due to a terminal illness.  I’ve been looking back at my own grief journey, and studying the most common things about grief that cause people to get stuck and what helps them get unstuck.  I’m excited to share those tips with you today.  This is the first part in a series on grief.  The next few episodes will include an episode sharing my experience of my mother passing away, an episode interviewing my siblings about their various grief experiences and an episode about what to say and what not to say to people experiencing grief.  

On the podcast you’ll learn:

• Why the using the common grief model by Elizabeth Kubler-Ross to understand your grief journey might NOT be helpful
•  Different graphics or models that may be more helpful
• What the four tasks are that help us heal from grief

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Changing your behavior around people pleasing is a process.  Today’s podcast offers 10 practical tips to help you prepare for a situation, navigate no people pleasing in the moment, and a few tips for how to make not people pleasing successful.  If you haven’t listened to the first three podcasts, be sure to do that as the podcasts build on each other.  

On the podcast you'll learn:

• The Boomerang Principle
• The Einstein Experiment
• The Um Rule
• About Filling Your Own Cup
• And several more tips!

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Podcast Mentions:
The Full Cup Podcast by Libby Switzer and Craig Berthold

People pleasing is something almost all of us do.  Chronic people pleasers sometimes don’t know how to stop.  On this episode we dive into how to stop people pleasing.  There is a practical four step process with several examples to help you see how it might apply in different situations.   

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