This episode is for you if you are a founder, coach, or service provider who is successful on paper but exhausted behind the scenes. This episode is for you if you have tried every productivity hack, morning routine, and mindset shift and still feel stuck. This episode is for you if you want to understand what is actually happening inside your body when stress takes over and how to stop it.

How Do You Rebuild Your Life After Losing Someone You Love?

Caren asks whether tremendous loss can eventually become part of a larger process of discovering who you are when the life—and sometimes the identity—you once knew has changed. That leads to a deeper Question Everything question: When someone or something that helped define your identity is suddenly gone... WHO ARE YOU NOW?

Are you actually a thriving productivity queen... or is your nervous system running on unaddressed grief, zero real rest, and a bucket of liquid cortisol disguised as iced coffee? ☕️🔥 In this episode of Gettin' in the Grove, Jen Grove sits down with bestselling author, speaker, and whole-self alignment powerhouse Caren Paskel to expose the truth about hustle culture, fake "wellness" quick-fixes, and what happens when your body finally decides to shut down because you refused to slow down. After the sudden loss of her husband, Caren built a wildly successful empire on the outside while her physical body was literally falling apart on the inside. She threw away the hustle, moved to a mountaintop in Colorado, cut out the caffeine, alcohol, and chaotic noise, and completely recalibrated her entire nervous system. If you’ve been searching for an emotional healing podcast, a holistic mental health podcast, or a healing podcast that skips the toxic positivity and gives you raw, actionable truths—this episode is for you.

In this warm and wide-ranging conversation, Gen sits down with Caren Paskel, founder of Caren Paskel Self-Evolution®, author and speaker, who transformed profound loss into a blueprint for radical reinvention. After losing her husband to brain cancer, her yoga studios during the pandemic, and eventually her home in Detroit, Caren didn't just rebuild — she completely reimagined what her life could look like. Now 48 and living in Colorado, she's the author of two books: The Power of Self-Belief and Midlife Crisis to Midlife Creation: The Five Steps to Recreate Your Life and Reclaim Your Power.