Dr. Wendy Suzuki

He passed away, thank you, of a heart attack.

So sudden, he was getting worse and we were caring for him, but it was just sudden and so devastating.

But then just three months later, my younger brother had a heart attack and he passed away.

And I had to stop writing the book.

I couldn't write a book on anxiety.

I was grieving so terribly.

And so naturally, like so many others have unimaginable.

Yes.

And so I was coming out of it.

I was using all the techniques that I was, you know, halfway writing in the book, exercise, you know, meditation, trying all this.

And one morning, I was working out on my video workout.

And the instructor said, with respect to exercise, you know, with great pain comes great knowledge.

She was talking about your body.

You really work out, you get better knowledge of yourself.

But that somehow was exactly what I needed to hear because I was going through great pain.

And I asked myself, what knowledge is coming of this?

What can I learn from this grief?

And what I learned was that

On the other side, the flip side of that deep grief was a deep love that I had for my brother and my father.

And yes, did I love my father?