Share One Grief and One Gratitude for 2020

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Share One Grief and One Gratitude for 2020

Handing you the mic for the last episode of 2020

As I look toward the end of 2020, I want to squeeze in just one more Listener-Contributed podcast episode. These episodes are some of my absolute favorites to compile and produce. So far this year you’ve told your stories of youthful shenanigans and your GenX Summer Stories, and I’d like to do just one more to close out the year. Here’s the challenge:

Share one grief and one gratitude from 2020

It has been an absolute crap year, but I know that each of us still has experienced some unexpected silver lining. In the spirit of my conversation in Ep 84 with Therapist Mazi Robinson, I want us to acknowledge the duality of what we’ve come through, the bad and the good. So I’m inviting you to share a loss you’re grieving, and something for which you are grateful.

Were you to pose this question to me, I would give a different answer each time you ask. For today I would say that I’m grieving my inability to visit my New York family as much as usual this year. But I’m grateful for the way my siblings came together to care for my mom during this difficult time, and made me feel like I was still doing my part from afar.

How about you? What is one thing you are mourning? Let’s crowd-source an episode that acknowledges and honors the hits we’ve taken in 2020 – they are myriad and they are real. As Mazi said in our discussion,

This experience is different in that we can’t stuff our feelings and take the attitude of “Oh, I’ll just figure all that out later. I’ll process that later.” This is an experience where we must feel as we go. And so part of what is helpful in allowing us to feel as we go is to name what we’re experiencing, to name that this is hard, and it feels hard because it is hard. It’s not hard because we’re weak. It’s not hard because we’re doing something wrong. It’s not hard because we’re not disciplined enough in our new routines. It’s hard because it’s hard.

But of course I want you, and this year’s podcast season, to end on a note of hope, so please share one thing that’s been unexpectedly good, too. The thing you’re grateful for? Someone else might need a reminder not to take it for granted – and there may be a few things you’re overlooking that listening to this episode will help uncover.

As usual for one of these episodes, there are lots of ways to share your thoughts:

Leave me a voice mail right from your computer! Go to www.MidlifeMixtape.com and you’ll see a blue button on the right hand side that says, “Share one grief and one gratitude for 2020” Just press it, and you can start recording with one click. I would LOVE for people to do this so I can incorporate your actual voice on the episode! There’s a 90 second limit and you can re-record before sending if you need to.
Record a voice memo into your phone and email it to dj@midlifemixtape.com. Again, it would be so cool to hear and share your story in your actual voice.
Leave me a comment below!
Email me your grief and gratitude in 2020 to dj@midlifemixtape.com
Send me a Facebook message, tweet or Instagram comment @midlifemixtape

Start thinking about it and then send me your stories to me before Dec 11! Then tune in on Tuesday, Dec 22 to hear the show!

ICYMI on the @midlifemixtape socials over Thanksgiving weekend – I asked an absolute’ ’80s ICON to help me extend my deepest thanks to Midlife Mixtape Podcast listeners for all your support – check it out here!

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