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Elizabeth Muhle

Elizabeth Muhle

Registered Social Worker and founder of Illumination Therapeutic Services; author of "Soaring with Burnt Wings," a memoir about grief and resilience after her fiancé's death from cancer.

Jul 13, 2026

9:23
It's finding joy in the new life that you're now presented with.
9:27
Yeah.
9:28
One of my favorite analogies, that's not my own, but that I have borrowed.
9:33
is that grief is like carrying around a bowling ball.
9:37
And the bowling ball never actually gets lighter.
9:39
You know, time does not heal grief.
9:42
Working through it, building ways to survive that, but we can get stronger and used to carrying that bowling ball.

16 MINS LATER

25:57
think my final question is what is what do you think healing looks like

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