Goodbye George; Losing the Man that Made my Husband

Emotional Badass

Nikki Eisenhauer

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Education

4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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In this heartfelt episode, we're navigating grief after the sudden loss of my father-in-law, Chris's dad; George. We revisit a throwback discussion on the five stages of grief - denial, anger, depression, bargaining, and acceptance - but with a deeper understanding of how these stages work. Grief doesn't follow a neat checklist and we often move back and forth between stages. The episode breaks down how denial acts as a protective buffer, why anger surfaces when we feel powerless, and how depression weighs us down. There is a bargaining phase where we try to make deals with the universe, and ultimately reach acceptance by letting go of the fight against what we cannot control. As well as some practical ways to process grief, like writing and speaking aloud, plus a meaningful candle ritual for releasing what we've lost and embracing hope for moving forward. 🚧 THE BOUNDARIES INTENSIVE:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://EmotionalBadass.com/boundaries⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 💖 PATREON: https://Patreon.com/emotionalbadass 👨‍👨 WORK WITH NIKKI 1:1: https://EmotionalBadass.com/coaching 📰 THE BI-WEEKLY WELLNESS NEWSLETTER https://www.EmotionalBadass.com/newsletter⁠⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome to the show.
0:02.8	This is Emotional Badass, where Moxie meets Mindful.
0:06.5	I'm your host, Nikki Eisenhower, life coach and psychotherapist.
0:10.4	And on today's episode, I'm discussing grief through a throwback episode.
0:16.4	Music Hello, y'all.
0:28.9	So if you feel that my energy is low and kind of sad, you're right on.
0:35.2	Chris and I are scrambling to get this edited and ready for our release schedule.
0:42.2	It feels tender to say, and we have just brought Chris onto the show, so it feels extra tender or
0:49.9	exposing to me, but I want to be truthful. Last night we got a phone call and Chris's dad died last
0:58.4	night. So thanks for bearing with me as I try to get this out. He died how he wanted at home in his bed.
1:10.6	And from what we know so far, he died quickly and he knew it was coming.
1:16.4	There are some synchronistic and spiritual moments that have culminated in his passing.
1:24.6	One day when we and Chris have processed enough in our private grief, we will likely share
1:31.7	those synchronistic connections and experiences. But for now, for this week's episode, we're
1:38.5	airing a throwback from 2020. You'll hear me mention in that episode, losing Chris's grandmother, not to COVID,
1:47.8	but to cancer, just happened to be during peak COVID. And a funeral for her, our collective
1:55.0	family mourning, was unable to happen. No matter how a loss happens and loss is universal, we all have experienced it and will
2:05.3	experience more.
2:07.3	So no matter how a loss happens, loss is hard and it feels unfair, even when we understand
2:13.9	and accept that death is a part of life.
2:17.6	The older one gets, the more death and loss one experiences.
2:22.6	And that hurts.
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