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The Grief Timeline: How Loss Shapes Us with Dr. Rick Butts
The conversation this week with our colleague and friend, Dr. Rick Butts, stopped us in our tracks—in the best way.
Rick walked us through his grief timeline, beginning with losing his grandmother at 7, his father at 10, and later his mother at 35. What unfolded was something we hadn’t quite thought about before: grief isn’t just an event… it’s a thread that runs through your entire life.
In this episode, we talk about:
Why many of us get “stuck” in one stage of grief (hello, denial)
How childhood loss quietly shapes adult coping patterns
Why unprocessed grief lives in the body
The idea that…
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