A Mick Unplugged YouTube interview with Lauren Sisler about her long-term process of growth and healing after the tragic loss of her parents. Sisler describes grief as ongoing—decades later she still experiences crying and laughter—and emphasizes that healing and growth coexist with joy and pain; the process takes time and difficult periods eventually pass.
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I love that idea of we're always growing up because I think that our growth and our healing are always evolving. We're always growing, we're always healing. And so I would say that my experiences after losing my parents that have shaped me tremendously have been in that process of growth, of realizing, like, wow, like, this awful, tragic thing happened. But now I can use it for good. And, you know, getting to that realization obviously takes a lot of time. So I'm not going to mask over and gloss over the fact that, like, we are 21 years removed from the passing of my parents, and I'm still growing, I'm still healing, I'm still learning, I still cry, I still laugh, I still find joy. All those things work in synergy together, right? And I think that's the beauty of this life. The ebbs and flows, right? You're never gonna be on a high. You're never always gonna be happy. But also those trying times, the storms will pass.