263. Listener Storytime: Holding Grief While Choosing What’s Next
Finding Mr. Height: The Podcast
Ali Jackson
3.9 • 712 Ratings
🗓️ 2 March 2026
⏱️ 45 minutes
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TW: This episode includes discussion of grief, loss, and suicide. If you or someone you know is struggling, please reach out. You can call or text 988 to connect with the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline — they're available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and it's free and confidential.
This week, Ali is joined by a listener who opens up about grieving the loss of a partner and navigating life (and dating) while healing from deep trauma. She shares what helped her through the hardest years, how healing unfolded in non-linear ways, and what it’s been like to build a full life on the other side of grief. They explore what it really means to seek connection while carrying grief, the tension between moving forward and honoring loss, and how dating can feel especially complicated after partner loss.
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| 0:00.0 | And all I could think was, oh my God, this crazy thing happened to me and you have no idea. |
| 0:05.9 | And like you're sitting across from me thinking I'm just like a normal 20 something year old |
| 0:09.9 | girl who like seems nice enough. |
| 0:12.5 | And like that's mostly true. |
| 0:15.0 | But I also just had this like crazy loss happened to me relatively recently. |
| 0:19.3 | And it's like all I can really think about. |
| 0:32.4 | Hello and welcome to other episode of finding Mr. Hyde the podcast. |
| 0:35.4 | I am your host, Ali Jackson, and I am bringing you my positive and practical approach to dating, relationships, and a whole lot else about life brought to you from my personal lived experience. This week's episode, though, is not about my personal lived experience. It is about one of your personal lived experiences. This is a listener story time episode. Before we get into that listener |
| 0:54.7 | story time on today's episode, I want to take a moment to acknowledge that this story, |
| 0:59.4 | this listener's story revolves around and touches on suicide and loss and grief. |
| 1:05.7 | And that might not be a topic that you are prepared to or want to hear today. And that is |
| 1:10.7 | totally fine, or maybe ever. And so I wanted to give that trigger warning up front, That might not be a topic that you are prepared to or want to hear today, and that is totally |
| 1:10.9 | fine, or maybe ever. |
| 1:12.4 | And so I wanted to give that trigger warning up front so that if you want to, you can skip |
| 1:17.4 | this episode. |
| 1:18.1 | I totally understand it is an incredible, incredible conversation with a listener named Caroline |
| 1:25.1 | who is just so amazingly open and vulnerable and reflective |
| 1:32.0 | and strong. It's one of my favorite conversations that I've had on this podcast to date. |
| 1:39.8 | And I really, really appreciate her for coming onto the show and sharing her story and talking about how she has moved through this experience and what that was like for her and what it is like now many years later. |
| 1:56.6 | And normally, as you know, I start every episode with an update section and a media mention. |
| 2:04.6 | And today I just, this week, rather, I just want to let Caroline's story stand on its own. |
| 2:12.6 | And in lieu of a typical media mention, if anything you hear today brings up difficult feelings, |
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