112 - When life knocks you down | Real talk on grief, growth and getting back up

About this episode

Candice shares her personal experience with grief and the challenges of personal growth after a significant life event.

This episode was a hard one to record and an even harder one to share. It is a real-time processing of what I’m going through right now. I'm coming to you after one of the hardest months I've had in a long time. Something significant happened in my personal life — something I'm not able to share the full details of because other people are involved. But what I can share is this: I got knocked completely on my ass. My confidence was shaken. All the progress I felt like I'd made seemed to evaporate overnight. And for a while, I really didn't handle it well. I'm sharing this because I think we need to have an honest conversation about what personal growth actually looks like — outside of the highlight reel version, the quantum leap and the "I've figured it all out" energy. The real version where sometimes, even when you're doing all the work, life still shows up and floors you. In this episode, I share: ✧ What happened, as much as I'm able to share — and why I felt it was important to show up and say it out loud ✧ Why anger is a mask for something deeper and what happens when we stay on the surface instead of going underneath ✧ Why being in the mess is actually the only…

Topics covered

• grief
• personal growth
• resilience
• emotional health

Keywords

• confidence
• anger
• tools for growth
• messy process

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