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🪷If something in this spoke to you, I’d love to hear, message me. Most people have a picture of what grief is supposed to look like. And when it doesn't match, when it includes anger, numbness, relief, anxiety, confusion, or waves that arrive at the most ordinary moments, it's easy to won…
🪷If something in this spoke to you, I’d love to hear, message me. You built a successful career. You worked hard for it. To anyone looking in, it's a success story. And it doesn't feel like you anymore. This is one of the loneliest and least-discussed professional experiences. The growing…
🪷If something in this spoke to you, I’d love to hear, message me. The relationship is over. Nothing is happening. And you're more exhausted than you've ever been. This is one of the most commonly misunderstood experiences in the aftermath of a difficult relationship. The depletion that do…
🪷If something in this spoke to you, I’d love to hear, message me. The going from calm to overwhelmed in a moment. The snapping at people you love over things that would never have touched you before. The reactions that feel disproportionate and unlike you. And underneath all of it, the shame of not…
🪷If something in this spoke to you, I’d love to hear, message me. You're functioning. Life looks fine. There's nothing you could point to that would justify feeling this way. And yet the overwhelm is there. Persistent, low-level, wearing. A pressure without obvious cause. A glass that&apo…
🪷If something in this spoke to you, I’d love to hear, message me. Nobody warns you about the specific quality of the quiet when the house empties.Not the peaceful quiet. The other kind. The kind that surfaces something you were not expecting, and that you cannot quite name, and that is harder to si…
🪷If something in this spoke to you, I’d love to hear, message me. Grief is talked about in terms of sadness and loss and stages. What almost never gets discussed is what it does to your sense of who you are. When you lose someone central to your life, you do not just lose them. You lose the version…
🪷If something in this spoke to you, I’d love to hear, message me. There is a particular kind of work exhaustion that rest does not touch. It is there on Monday morning and still there after a week away. It is not about how much you are doing. It is about how much of who you are is in what you are d…
🪷If something in this spoke to you, I’d love to hear, message me. When a relationship ends and you know it was right, the expectation is that letting go should follow. Logic says so. Everyone around you says so. But your body does not work on logic. In this episode, Clare explores what is really ha…
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