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2024. Standing on stage facing my anxiety. What a wonderful experience thank you @SpeakerSlam

13 Oct 2025 · 2 min

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In this spoken‑word performance, the speaker shares how grief transformed their life. They describe attending therapy, learning to harness positivity, and consciously avoiding the natural tendency toward negative thinking. By recognizing this negativity bias, they chose to focus on what mattered, practicing "trickle‑down positivity" and turning grief support into an active pursuit. The monologue concludes with a sense of having entered a new reality shaped by these intentional choices.

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Grief changed everything. I went to therapy, learned the power of positivity. I was not getting stuck in the negative spins I call trying to shut down nothing bad, especially when the negativity was so— I knew how wired we are for negativity. How wired we are for negativity. I'm so sorry. I'm fine. I'm just— did what mattered. Trickle-down positivity. Grief support became my activity. Found ourselves in a new reality.