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Hey everybody, it's Marielle.
You may know TK do tests.
She's done some of my favorite episodes of life kit.
Earlier this year, her cat died.
A week later, TK did an Instagram live.
Hey y'all, it's one week.
Life after misses Peabody.
Rest in peace.
To my little baby cat, it was.
Just her walking in Brooklyn and processing.
I've been dealing with grief and the unexpected ways that grief shows up.
And I realized in my like, heartbreak and my pain and my just exhaust.
Yo, my body was hurt, y'all.
There's something about the moment right after a loss.
It can open something up inside of you.
You feel this raw pain, and with it come these flashes of insight.
TK had a lot of those.
The video was a celebration of her relationship with Misses Peabody, a meditation on how grief expresses itself in our bodies and how it can be a portal for other past traumas and a validation of other people's grief for their pets.
I just want to say all this to just let you know that, like pet grief, you don't have to rush back to work.