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I know it has been a while since our last episode and I just wanted to take a moment
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to thank you all for your continued support of Beyond Goodbye.
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Your messages, stories, and feedback remind me why these conversations about grief and
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healing are so important.
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We have been working hard behind the scenes revamping Beyond Goodbye to bring an even
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more meaningful and engaging experience and I have some exciting news to share.
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We have a website now.
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You can find it at www.beyondgoodbye.org and I will leave these in notes today.
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We also have a new email which is beyond goodbye 21 at gmail.com.
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So I've been spending the last many months thinking about Beyond Goodbye and how it could
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maybe better serve my community, our community.
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And at the same time, deciding whether I even wanted to continue with Beyond Goodbye.
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It is a little bit triggering for me on occasion to hear other stories and just to talk about
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those things.
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But it's also very healing.
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So I decided after a lot of thought and meditation to move forward, but with maybe a little bit
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of a different format.
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We're still going to have the stories.
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So in addition to, you know, the grief stories that we hear from our guests, we're going
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to be incorporating some other things.
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And so here's just a sampling of what those will be.
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So we'll have, you know, our listener stories.
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We're going to have panel discussions and roundtables, you know, something to kind of
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just deepen our conversations around grief, healing, transformation.
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I'm also going to have guided sessions.
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And so we'll have little short episode interludes where I may share personal thoughts or reflections.
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Um, maybe offer some mindfulness exercises.
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Maybe we'll do a meditation, some guided journaling prompts, that sort of thing.
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I also am going to incorporate, uh, what I'm going to call letters to our loved ones.
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And these are short episodes and they will be where you as the listeners will submit
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letters written to someone you've lost and either I will read them or you could read
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them if you'd like.
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On the website, I have an area where you can send me a message, um, in via email or voice
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message.
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So if you were to send me a voice message that was your letter to a loved one, I would
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just play that instead of my reading it if you wanted me to do that.
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Um, and I, you know, there's going to be other things that we'll share and we'll do moving
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forward, but this is the, the newer subjects or maybe not subject is the word platform
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of what I want to incorporate that I feel better encompasses.
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It's, it's I think more well rounded than what I had started out with.
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Um, and I'm really excited to do that.
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And so we'll have our regular, you know, someone sharing their story and interview that will
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happen once a month, the new or next show or episode coming out will be on March 19th
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and I'm interviewing a woman by the name of DC Copeland and I'm pretty excited for you
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all to hear from her.
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She is a millennial and I think that we have, um, somebody speaking from that perspective.
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I know I have some millennial listeners out there.
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I truly believe you guys are going to enjoy hearing what she has to say.
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I really enjoy speaking with her.
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So that will be the episode for March.
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And as I said, each month we'll do one episode, but each month I'm also going to have those
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short little interludes.
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So a journal prompt or, and, or a listener story.
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If we get listener stories, I'm playing them that month.
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Um, and the roundtables will be more, that's a specialized sort of thing.
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It would be a longer podcast.
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So maybe, you know, it'd be an hour, 45 minutes, and those probably are only going to happen
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a few times a year.
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And they'll be with scientists, religious, uh, folks with us, regular people who, you
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know, think outside the box or inside the box and just have a robust conversation around
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grief and loss.
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So I just really want to thank everyone for being part of this journey and for your patience
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with me over the last few months of not having posted anything.
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Uh, your support means everything and I can't wait to continue and grow the space with you.
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If you haven't already, uh, please follow beyond goodbye and your favorite podcast sites.
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You don't miss out.
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And if beyond goodbye resonates with you, even if it's just the older shows and we haven't,
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you know, we're just starting new in the 2025 year, please share it with somebody who you
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think might need it today.
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And there you have it, the 2025 version of beyond goodbye.
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Thank you for listening and we'll meet you all again on March 19th.
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Bye for now.