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Hello everybody, welcome to Self -Help Show.
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This is Gina and I'm your host. Today we were
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supposed to have an amazing discussion with...
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Tom Rose. He is an author, speaker and a former
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cooking show personality. He's famously known
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for cooking together with Tom and Joyce. And
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this was original show on Fox for 13 years. So
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I know a lot of people would have really like
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looked forward to him. So because he wasn't able
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to connect, I'm going to carry on with today's
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episode just on my own. You know, my own episodes
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are very brief and straight to the point. Our
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discussion was going to be about grief. So from
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a personal experience, I have dealt with grief
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when I lost my mom. And I think on this podcast,
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I've spoken about grief several times. I think
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this is something that nobody applies for. It
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just happens to anyone. You can just wake up
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one day and somebody that you love the most is
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gone. So how do we deal with grief? I will share
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my own personal experiences, as you know. It's
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always about what I've gone through. And then
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I always invite experts to talk about, you know,
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what they have studied and what they have experienced
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in their lives as well. So for me, honestly,
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it was a difficult time. I think for the most
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part of it, I blamed myself. And I think this
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happens with majority of people, you know, especially
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if it is your lover or your sibling or your parents.
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It can be anyone. You tend to blame yourself
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for... what happened and then I kind of went
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on a spiral of just depression and anxiety and
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wondering why they left me. So if there's anybody
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who's going through grief right now listening
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to this, I just want you to know that it is not
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your fault. Life just happens the way life happens
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and we don't have control over it. We can have
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control over what we do. We can have control
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over what we eat, where we go, how we spend our
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time. But when that moment comes when, you know,
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it's death, nobody really can control it. From
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the trillionaires to the poorest of poor, no
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one can control that. I know this for certain,
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and I'm sure you also know this. So the best
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way to kind of move on and just understand that
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it happened just the way it did, then there really
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isn't anything else that would cause you pain.
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I think the first step is acceptance. If you
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just accept it, then you should be on a fast
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way to recovery. Then the second thing is just
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acknowledging that this person was, for example,
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my mom. She played a very big role in my life
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because she gave birth to me. And she was there
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for me in times where she could and in times
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where she couldn't. It's something that I also
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understood. However, I valued all the times we
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shared and it really like were some of my happiest
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memories. I remember the one time when she visited
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me, I was in high school. I was in boarding school.
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And I think at that time I had gone over a year
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plus without having anyone visit me. every term
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there's like a visitation day and I had gone
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for like maybe four terms without anyone visiting
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me and she just randomly visited and she brought
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me everything I've always wanted. I'll always
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remember that day. It was one of my happiest
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days. I was so happy to see her. I had not seen
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her I think in like maybe two years and But at
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that time, we didn't have phones, so you couldn't
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really call and say, oh, where are you? Come
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and visit me. It was a matter of you, maybe you
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see somebody else's parent and then when they
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go, you'll be like, please, when you go home,
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please, can you tell my parents or someone to
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come and visit me? That type of thing. So, yeah,
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I think one of my friends, one of my friend's
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parents visited the previous term. Visitation.
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And then she noticed that nobody visited me.
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And then I told her, please, like when you go
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back, can you tell like my parents or somebody
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to visit me? So they fortunately enough delivered
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the message. And then my mom came to visit me.
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So it was one of the happiest moments. So the
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reason I'm saying this is whenever you lose someone
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that you love dearly, just always immerse yourself.
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and the happiest moments that you spent together
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because that will not only help you heal, it
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will also just help you, it will help you almost
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like appreciate them and kind of feel like they're
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there even they're not there. You will relive
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that memory and how it made you feel and that
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would make you feel better, right? Then... Another
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thing is just feel the emotions. If you want
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to cry, cry. If you want to walk, take a walk.
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If you just want to sleep, take a nap, do what
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you can. Try to just be in the most positive
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emotions as possible because having that heartbreak
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and just containing yourself in that space of
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pain will only do damage than good. so much time
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where I was lonely. This is actually not good.
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If you're going through grieving, you're supposed
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to be around people, be around friends, be around
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your family, be around some sort of supportive
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structure that will help you process these emotions
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so that you feel loved and well taken care of
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and you will feel complete. So now another thing
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When it comes to grief, there are so many different
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cultural beliefs. You know, some people believe
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that if somebody dies, they will either come
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back. Some people believe that they are in a
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resting place. Some people believe that they
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have gone to heaven. Some people believe that
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they are still here. You know, there are so many
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beliefs in the world. So I think the best way
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is to connect with how you feel. best for yourself
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i am christian i believe that if somebody dies
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they've you know gone they're gone they're not
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around they've crossed over to like the other
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side so even if i try to like speak to them or
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anything else i don't know if any of that works
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but then there are cultures that believe that
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you can speak to them you can talk to them you
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can write letters to them You can express yourself
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and there is a way they will respond to you.
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I remember this, I think one guest I spoke about
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here, or maybe somebody else I spoke to randomly,
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and they told me that when they lost their brother,
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they used to go to like a park where they used
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to spend time with the brother. And the person
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said, They would always see a butterfly at that
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park. So in a way, it almost resembled the brother,
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you know. So these are some of the things that
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people kind of deal with when trying to cope
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with grief. Then another thing is journal. Write
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it down. Write your emotions. Sometimes say things
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that we cannot say. But if we write it down,
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it's also a way of expressing how we feel. that
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can help us move forward without them. So these
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are kind of my ways that I know. Worst case scenario,
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you're struggling, you're like rolling in the
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deep. I would suggest you go see a therapist,
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go for some therapy. At least you will be confiding
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in a professional that will give you professional
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responses that will help you. So go speak to
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a therapist, tell them how you're feeling, spend
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time with them. they will help you. I've personally
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had therapy and it was one of the best things
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to ever happen to me because it helped me move
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from a place of being broken to fully being restored.
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Then the last thing I want to say is, again,
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to anyone who is going through grief at this
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point, I am so sorry that you lost your loved
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one or whatever that you lost. I pray that you
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find some sort of healing. And just understand
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that, you know, this is not your fault. This
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is beyond your control. And you just have to
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find a way to live life onwards without this
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particular person. So, yeah, thank you guys for
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joining. I appreciate it that you took some time
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to listen. I want to tell you that we're going
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to try another episode with Tom. I promise that
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he's going to come on the show. This technical
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issue with his device is kind of caught in the
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way. But I know that he is going to be on the
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show so we can pick up this conversation about
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grief when he comes back. So enjoy the rest of
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your day wherever you are. Stay blessed. And
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remember to share, like and subscribe. Go to
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a good one. Bye.