After losing someone close, the speaker started a grief support group where people learned to be fully present with their real emotions. They discovered that joy and celebration aren't separate from grief or hardship, but emerge when people allow themselves to feel and connect authentically.
We have to be present in order to really, truly experience what's going on. And. And what's going on is life. And life is joy. It is even. You know, and I've been looking at this a lot. I just went through a really big period of grief, and I started some. Oh, thank you. And, you know, you. As you might guess where I'm headed with this is that I started a grief group where I was talking to other people, grieving. And the truth of it is, when we were all present to the feelings that were going on, when we were allowing ourselves to be there with them, we were laughing and smiling. I mean, not all the time. We were also crying, but there's. There's a joy. There is a joy to that because we were connected. We were connected to our authentic feelings. We were connected authentically to one another. And to me, this is part of, like, you know, I love your revolution in your. Right, right. And to me, like, the big revolution that I would love to. To lead is that, you know, celebration can happen in any moment. Joy can happen in any moment, even when we're grieving, even when we're crabby, even when we're having a hard time. That I really want people to redefine the way that we see those words. Like, it's a celebration to be in a group of people where we can authentically express our feelings together. Right?
