Episode 37 - Saying Goodbye To The Life Before

There's a part of recovery nobody really talks about. For me, it looked a lot like grief — but nobody had died.

This week I talk about saying goodbye to the life I had before the heart attack. Not just the man I was on the inside, but the shape of my days. The pace I kept. The quiet assumptions about how it was all going to go.

There's even a name for it — ambiguous loss. Grief without a death. Mourning something that's gone in a way nobody quite sees, sometimes including yourself.

If you're missing who you were, missing the way life used to be, and not yet sure who you're becoming — you're not on your own with it. I think there's a lot of us in that space.

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