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🗓️ 22 June 2025
⏱️ 5 minutes
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0:00.0 | So tonight we have an interesting episode. |
0:16.2 | Someone named Johanna on Instagram asked for an episode about grief and how we handle grief. |
0:24.6 | And I think it's a great topic because we all have to handle grief at different points in |
0:29.1 | our lives. So I'm no expert on the topic, but I have experienced grief and I want to share |
0:36.3 | what I know about it. |
0:39.0 | One, grief is real. |
0:42.1 | It's not an idea. |
0:44.8 | When we experience loss, we experience grief. |
0:48.2 | It's an energy that has to be processed and there's no getting around it. |
0:52.7 | We're talking ourselves out of it. |
0:55.5 | Grief affects the endocrine, immune, autonomic nervous, and cardiovascular systems of the body. |
1:03.0 | Grief is big and it has its own schedule. And if I don't let myself feel it, things can get weird, and it comes out in different ways. |
1:17.6 | Two, grief sucks. It's painful. We have neurons in our heart, in our gut, and in our brains, and they all feel pain. |
1:29.3 | It's no accident that we reserve words like wailing and keening, |
1:35.3 | and the concept of the rending of garments when we talk about grief. |
1:41.3 | But as awful as it can feel, we are designed to withstand it. |
1:47.0 | In fact, experiencing grief makes us stronger and deeper and more compassionate toward others. |
1:56.0 | Grief is a part of life. |
2:00.0 | Three, grief is tricky. |
2:04.9 | When I'm grieving, it feels like it will never end. |
2:10.2 | It's like this weird illusion that comes with it. |
2:14.8 | I can try to make it end or judge myself that it's going on longer than I think it |
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