Conversations from the Heart #139 - Living With Grief That Doesn't Go Away
This week's episode is a conversation about grief as an ongoing, relational experience rather than something to “get over.” In this episode, we explore ambiguous loss, nervous system capacity, and what actually helps when grief doesn’t resolve neatly.
Together, we reflect on:
•Why some forms of grief don’t have clear endings—and why that’s not a failure
•How grief lives in the nervous system and shapes our capacity for connection
•The difference between presence and fixing when someone is grieving
•What it means to stay human, relational, and honest in the presence of loss
This episode invites a slower, more compassionate way of being with grief, one that honors presence over solutions, and meaning over closure.
Read more about grief and ambiguous loss: Grief That Doesn't Resolve
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