Cass

I just wanted to encourage everyone, particularly at this time of year, please be kind.

Please try and be accepting of others and the different ways they choose to celebrate or not celebrate this festive season.

Before I wrap up, I just wanted to acknowledge another hard thing for a lot of people at this time of year is grieving loved ones who are no longer with us.

I think a lot of people have loved ones who are no longer with us and these times of the year when we're celebrating one occasion can bring up memories and strong emotions and feelings

you know, waves of grief can come over us because we might be thinking, well, what could have been, or we're just missing people who are no longer with us.

So again, I think all those feelings are perfectly normal.

And, you know, if you notice someone is suffering or grieving or

you know something they're particularly missing people this year then again please offer support where you can just listening to someone's story like asking them hey you don't look okay is there something you wanted to talk about I mean how beautiful is that it just offers someone a chance to talk about a loved one that they may be missing you know

When I was driving home from the gym this morning, I was behind a car and I noticed it had a sticker of like angel wings and a person's name and two years and the date between those years was 18.

And then the sticker said forever 18.

And I just started crying.

I'm like...

You know, these poor people are going to be missing this person terribly at this time of year.

And then it made me think about family ones that I'm missing at this time of year.

And again, that common humanity, this is common for so many people.

So, yeah, I just be kind to yourself, offer compassion to others and, you know, realize like people might be struggling and you may not even know.

So choose your words so carefully.

Earlier this year, I started creating this podcast, something I had wanted to do for about eight years, but I let fear and perfectionism stop me from starting.

Then I finally decided I didn't want to go through life having regrets about not trying something that I really wanted to do.

Here we are.