The Next Right Thing

387: Learning to Let Go

The Next Right Thing

Show Notes

Today I want to share a bit more personally about my own journey this last 6 weeks. As always, my only hope in sharing with you my inner processing is that perhaps it will help you begin to make sense of your own. Listen in.

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