Amanda Knox

Yeah.

But I had been on a grief journey.

And it was so hard to be in deep grief, to deal with a multitude of challenges, but also be thrusted into this...

light where people are expecting you to smile and inside you're really... Just crumbling.

You're crumbling on the inside.

And my mother, the loss of my mother and the way my mother died, it was so sudden.

It was like an unknown condition that never could be diagnosed.

And she was fine in July and died December the 4th.

While the election was going on, most people didn't realize that I was spending most of my time in the medical.

My mother was in medical ICU on a ventilator for two months.

And when she ultimately passed, it was very hard.

So it's like my mother dies December the 4th.

We lost the election in November.

This administration comes in in January.

The country starts to move in this direction.

And so it's just heavy.

And I realized last year that I had to learn how to say no more and yes more.

And so that's when I think for really the first time forever in my life, I was forced to slow down because I just, there were days I just couldn't.

I just couldn't.

And I'm still learning how to say no, but it has been a work in progress.