Dr. Wendy Suzuki

Of course I would.

I would have said, yeah, of course I loved him.

It came out in such a deep way, of course, when they were gone.

And once I made that realization that I couldn't feel this great grief without that deep love that I hadn't even realized existed, it helped me understand it in such... I just exhaled.

It's just like, oh, okay, that's a...

Beautiful way to understand the grieving process.

And it helped me go through those feelings because, of course, you want to just, I just want to get over those feelings.

No, it almost made me want to, not that I could help it,

kind of really feel into that because that was showing the depth of my love for them.

And once I went through that grieving process a little bit more, I became obsessed with finding the flip sides.

All difficult emotions.

Turns out I was in the middle of writing a book about anxiety, a difficult emotion.

And so I became obsessed with understanding that flip side.

What could it do for us?

Because I needed to understand that about grief.

And so I pushed all that effort into my desire to understand that about anxiety.

And it made me reevaluate my own anxiety in a new way.

I needed to find something good.

What came out of it?

And that evaluation really let me come up with the superpowers of anxiety.