Trying To Live Life With Mindfulness And Intention After Losing A Friend

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1. In light of us both having had close friends pass away recently, we reflect on balancing grief with living life in a way that makes you feel truly alive. 
2. We talk about the sacred space funerals offer to celebrate life and grieve in community, and how both of us have always prioritized making that time, regardless of the obstacles it takes to get there. 
3. Losing loved ones inevitably causes us to ponder our life choices and puts us back in touch with ourselves and the way we want to be living—it can be a wake-up call and a signal to pay attention to our senses and get back in the moment. 
4. While there's no way to live in a constant state of presence and awareness of mortality (nor should we!), we think there's a way to take breaks from our frenetic, autopilot lives to pause and notice what's important more often than we often do. 
5. Stacey shares the questions she's been asking herself after losing her friend: What do I want be doing? What do I want to be feeling? What don't I want to be doing and feeling? And if I died tomorrow, would I be satisfied with how I spent my day, my month, my years?
6. While mindfulness and intention may be buzzwords in our busy modern lives, we think there's a reason for that: Becoming more mindful of finding the beauty in the small, mundane moments of our lives and bringing more intention to our choices can help to balance grief with meaning after losing loved ones. 

We are covering some heavy ground in this Stace and Steph episode. Both of us recently lost dear friends and traveled to their funerals, and together we are sharing what those experiences felt like and meant to us. Join us for some moments of sadness and questioning, but also some lightness and joy as we remember our beloved friends and what we learned from them, how they touched our lives, and what we are trying to do after these losses to truly feel alive and make our days, months, and years count.

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