You are worth it, my friend. Just as you are. There is nothing you need to do to prove that you are. You just are. You are worth the care, the love, the money, the effort, the energy, and the time. And from there, the benefits just overflow when you take care of yourself.

Your circle can be extremely small but very powerful. And if you even have just one or two people there to support you, to tell you the right things, to let you vent, that support is the most beneficial for anyone going through depression or anxiety.

Dirty grief is not the stuff you need to continue to live with. Clean grief is something that you do need to learn to carry; it is something that you do need to learn to process, work through, and live with for the rest of your life.

You will probably mess up in one way or another. But showing up is the most important thing you can do. Your disappearance and silence are worse than saying or doing the wrong thing.

You don't process grief quickly but trauma absolutely can be. Grief and trauma are two different things and trauma is actually not even emotional. It's a survival mechanism that gets stuck in the mind so your body is working exactly how it's supposed to.

Phil actually decided to face the pain and feel his emotions. He sat and grieved, that’s when he started to feel better. The grief process is healing. He started looking at Perry's pictures again and started going to the places that reminded Phil of Perry. It’s when he took a more offensive approach that he started to begin his healing.

How can you tell the difference between anxiety and intuition? How can you decipher what is a real threat that you need to do something versus anxiety that’s making you think you need to do something about it?

So, let’s start with this question. Would it have been better if your child or baby lived to be 100? We often think that longer is better. But here’s the thing, how do we know 1 year isn’t better than 98 years? How are we supposed to know what’s a better amount of time?