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What if the days when you feel like you’re not healing are actually the days when you’re doing the deepest healing?

In this episode, Najwa talks about grief, not only the grief of losing someone, but the grief of losing a relationship, a memory, a future you imagined, or even a version of yourself that no longer exists.

She opens up about the pressure to “get over it,” the tendency to intellectualize pain instead of feeling it, and why understanding what happened doesn’t necessarily make the hurt disappear.

Najwa also shares a practice that changed the way she moved through grief: returning, gently and at her own pace, to the places that held beautiful memories. Sometimes healing means allowing yourself to cry in the places you once laughed, accepting that a memory belongs to the past without trying to drag it back into your present.

If you’ve been judging yourself for how long it’s taking to move on, this episode is your reminder: you are not behind. You are not weak. You are in the middle of healing.

You don’t need someone else to give you closure. You can sit with yourself, honor what you feel, and slowly choose to move forward without abandoning yourself.