Hmm.

And two years after that, my family fled Vietnam, so I'm a former child refugee.

We lived in a refugee camp for six months, then raised in rural Australia, and then the big city of Melbourne, and yet that was 1979.

Uh, I fumbled and stumbled my way through a world that I didn't understand, and my parents couldn't help me make sense of the world because they were also displaced as well.

... everyone enjoys this as much as I did and continues to follow you, and yeah, how do people find you from here? What's the best way to stay in touch?

Oh, I have a website.

It's linda-thai.com. L-I-N-D-A dash T-H-A-I.com.

I have a monthly newsletter, so if you sign up for that, you can get my monthly review as well as what I'm up to.

Oh, yeah.

A- and feelings phobic, and yet grief is the great metabolizer, right? You know, when someone actually begins to feel their feelings in real time, particularly the emotion of grief, yeah, if they're able to let their grief be f- move through, expressed, and witnessed in real time, I'm writing their discharge summary, like, in my head.

Yeah.

Because grief is the great metabolizer.

Grief is a, an alchemical process that creates fuel and nourishment and sustenance for future growth.

Grief expands integrative capacity within an organism, within a, within a person.

Yeah, it expands your integrative capacity when it comes to a person's ability to metabolize life.

Please.