202 - Grief Isn’t Linear– How to Navigate Loss and Feel Your Feelings (Without a Timeline)
Barb Knows Best
Michelle Maros & Barb Schmidt
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2025
⏱️ 60 minutes
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This week on Life Happens with Barb and Michelle, we’re opening up about our personal journeys with grief and how we’ve supported each other through loss as mother and daughter. We’re sharing the lessons we’ve learned, the ways we’ve found resilience, and the love that continues to guide us.
This episode is especially close to our hearts. Barb speaks vulnerably about her current experience with grief, as a dear friend of hers has recently entered hospice care. She reflects on what it’s like to grieve in the present while also recalling the pain of supporting Michelle through the loss of her dad, while carrying her own.
Michelle shares more about how she navigated her dad’s passing over the years and how she redefined what it means to live with grief. She also offers one of her favorite practices that helps her move through the waves of emotions that still arise.
Here’s what you can expect from this week’s episode:
- Lean on Others: Grief is not meant to be carried alone. Let your loved ones show up for you. Community can be one of your greatest sources of strength.
- Healing Isn’t a Destination: Grief is not linear—it’s a lifelong process. Some days will still feel heavy. Give yourself compassion and space to just be where you are.
- Feel Your Feelings: There’s no right or wrong way to grieve. Allow yourself to fully feel whatever comes up, without judgment or a timeline.
- Celebrate the Love: Grief is proof of how deeply we’ve loved. That love doesn’t disappear. Reframing grief as a reflection of love can bring peace, even joy.
Grief is a tender, complicated journey—but you don’t have to walk it alone. We created this episode with deep love and care, hoping it will bring you comfort and connection as you move through your own experience of loss.
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| 1:30.5 | Hi friends. Welcome back to Life Happens. In this episode, my mom and I talk about the topic |
| 1:36.3 | of grief, the kind that comes with losing someone you love, of course, but also the kind that |
| 1:41.6 | comes from unexpected life changes, especially like the recent |
| 1:45.7 | California fires with the loss of homes, routines, and sense of safety. In this episode, we open |
| 1:52.2 | up about the loss of my dad, my mom's experience with anticipatory grief as a close friend |
| 1:58.0 | enters hospice, and how to support yourself and others through it all. |
| 2:02.7 | I really loved this conversation because it reminded me so much about grief in general that |
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