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Sibling grief is real
And it is often invisibleIn this episode of Grief is the New Normal, I sit down with Dr. Parul Dua...
04/11/2026

Sibling grief is real
And it is often invisible

In this episode of Grief is the New Normal, I sit down with Dr. Parul Dua Makkar to talk about what it means to lose a sibling

Not just the person
The inside jokes
The shared memories
The future you thought you would have together

In light of National Sibling Day, we are naming a kind of grief that does not get enough space

We talk about
Identity shifts after loss
Being the one left holding the stories
Grief bursts that show up in everyday moments
And how loss changes the way we move through the world and show up for others

If you have lost one of your people or you are supporting someone who has this conversation is for you.

Your grief is real
Your sibling still matters
And their name deserves to be said

Listen at the link in bio

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Follow for grief podcast, mental health, self-care, sass, and dark humor content whether you’re grieving or you’re a mental health professional needing more modern grief language.
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Wanting more grief specific support? Check out my grief journal, Authentically Unapologetic: A Grief Journal available for purchase thru the link in my bio!
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Your grief is valid and gets to take up space. I’m glad you’re here.
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All content created is meant for entertainment and educational purposes only. This is not a replacement for therapy.

We talk a lot about holding space for grief.But who’s holding space for us?Clinicians, coaches, helpers, this episode is...
04/07/2026

We talk a lot about holding space for grief.
But who’s holding space for us?
Clinicians, coaches, helpers, this episode is for you. The ones showing up hour after hour while quietly carrying your own grief. The ones writing safety plans for clients impacted by legislation that hurts you too. The ones who feel the fog, the apathy, the quiet “what’s the point” and keep going anyway.
That is not just burnout. That is grief. And it deserves to be named.
Part 3 of my series for clinicians and helpers is live now. We are talking moral injury, systemic grief, micro moves for a maxed out nervous system, and why you are allowed to not be okay and still be a damn good clinician.
Link in bio to listen.
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Follow for grief podcast, mental health, self-care, sass, and dark humor content whether you’re grieving or you’re a mental health professional needing more modern grief language.
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Wanting more grief specific support? Check out my grief journal, Authentically Unapologetic: A Grief Journal available for purchase thru the link in my bio!
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Your grief is valid and gets to take up space. I’m glad you’re here.
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All content created is meant for entertainment and educational purposes only. This is not a replacement for therapy.

Some grief does not come one loss at a timeIt comes in wavesIn layersIn a kind of avalanche that reshapes everything you...
04/03/2026

Some grief does not come one loss at a time

It comes in waves
In layers
In a kind of avalanche that reshapes everything you thought you knew about yourself and your life

In this conversation with Angie Hanson, we talk about what it means to live through that kind of grief and keep going

Not by fixing it
Not by rushing it
But by finding ways to express it

Through creativity
Through storytelling
Through saying the things most people are too uncomfortable to say out loud

This episode is about grief that does not fit into neat timelines
About parenting while grieving
About carrying multiple people at once
About learning how to move with grief instead of trying to move on from it

If you have ever felt like your grief is too much or too complicated or too layered

You are not alone in that

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Follow for grief podcast, mental health, self-care, sass, and dark humor content whether you’re grieving or you’re a mental health professional needing more modern grief language.
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Wanting more grief specific support? Check out my grief journal, Authentically Unapologetic: A Grief Journal available for purchase thru the link in my bio!
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Your grief is valid and gets to take up space. I’m glad you’re here.
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All content created is meant for entertainment and educational purposes only. This is not a replacement for therapy.

No one talks about this part.A client dies.And you are expected to show up the next day.Same chair.Same presence.Like no...
03/30/2026

No one talks about this part.

A client dies.
And you are expected to show up the next day.

Same chair.
Same presence.
Like nothing happened.

But something did.

This was not just a client.
This was a person whose story you held.

And now you are left holding
the questions
the what ifs
the paperwork
and the grief

We are trained in ethics.
We are trained in boundaries.
We are not trained in how to grieve a client.

So we figure it out quietly.
We second guess.
We try not to do it wrong.

And underneath all of that
we feel it.

This week on Grief is the New Normal, I am naming what many clinicians carry in silence.

You are allowed to grieve a client.
You can hold boundaries and still feel the loss.
And you do not have to carry this alone.

When a Client Dies is live now.

If this is part of your work, you are not the only one carrying it.
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Follow for grief podcast, mental health, self-care, sass, and dark humor content whether you’re grieving or you’re a mental health professional needing more modern grief language.
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Wanting more grief specific support? Check out my grief journal, Authentically Unapologetic: A Grief Journal available for purchase thru the link in my bio!
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Your grief is valid and gets to take up space. I’m glad you’re here.
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All content created is meant for entertainment and educational purposes only. This is not a replacement for therapy.

03/26/2026

We cannot think our way through something that is stored in the body.

In this clip, Wendy Stern shares why somatic work matters in grief and how breath, movement, and awareness can help us begin to metabolize what we are carrying.

If you support grieving clients or are navigating your own loss, this is an important reframe.

Grief does not need to be fixed.
It needs space.
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Follow for grief podcast, mental health, self-care, sass, and dark humor content whether you’re grieving or you’re a mental health professional needing more modern grief language.
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Wanting more grief specific support? Check out my grief journal, Authentically Unapologetic: A Grief Journal available for purchase thru the link in my bio!
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Your grief is valid and gets to take up space. I’m glad you’re here.
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All content created is meant for entertainment and educational purposes only. This is not a replacement for therapy.

Grief doesn’t just live in your thoughts.It lives in your chest.Your throat.Your breath.Your body.And yet… most of us ha...
03/26/2026

Grief doesn’t just live in your thoughts.
It lives in your chest.
Your throat.
Your breath.
Your body.

And yet… most of us have only been taught how to talk about grief.
Not how to actually feel it.

In this episode of Grief is the New Normal, I sat down with Wendy Stern to talk about what happens when we stop trying to think our way through grief and start listening to the body instead.

We talk about:
• how grief gets stored in the body
• why numbness is not failure, it is protection
• what it means to metabolize grief
• how breath can be a doorway back to yourself
• and why being witnessed can change everything

Because grief will find a way out.
The question is whether we give it space… or it forces its way through.

You do not have to fix your grief.
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Follow for grief podcast, mental health, self-care, sass, and dark humor content whether you’re grieving or you’re a mental health professional needing more modern grief language.
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Wanting more grief specific support? Check out my grief journal, Authentically Unapologetic: A Grief Journal available for purchase thru the link in my bio!
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Your grief is valid and gets to take up space. I’m glad you’re here.
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All content created is meant for entertainment and educational purposes only. This is not a replacement for therapy.

You became a therapist to help people through the hardest moments of their lives.Nobody told you what to do when the har...
03/23/2026

You became a therapist to help people through the hardest moments of their lives.

Nobody told you what to do when the hardest moment of YOUR life arrives. Or when the world around you is evoking deep grief. Or how to navigate active grief happening every news cycle.

And you still have clients to see. Who are also navigating grief.

This is one of the most unspoken realities of clinical work:

We are not immune to grief.

We are not supposed to be.

And the expectation that we should be able to compartmentalize our own loss and show up fully regulated, fully present, fully professional?

That expectation is not clinical wisdom.

It’s a wound our field has been passing down for generations.

You are allowed to grieve.
You are allowed to struggle.
You are allowed to need support.

And you are still a good clinician.

If you’re a therapist, counselor, coach, or helper navigating your own loss right now, this one’s for you. Listen to part one of the four part series on navigating our own grief while supporting our grieving clients. Available on all major podcast platforms. *
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Follow for grief podcast, mental health, self-care, sass, and dark humor content whether you’re grieving or you’re a mental health professional needing more modern grief language.
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Wanting more grief specific support? Check out my grief journal, Authentically Unapologetic: A Grief Journal available for purchase thru the link in my bio!
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Your grief is valid and gets to take up space. I’m glad you’re here.
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All content created is meant for entertainment and educational purposes only. This is not a replacement for therapy.

02/02/2026

This isn’t for the algorithm.
We did it because isolation is real right now, especially in our therapy work.

There’s no class on how to be a therapist while the world feels heavy, unstable, and nonstop. We’re trained to hold space, but not really taught how to stay connected when everything feels like “too much.”

So we checked in with each other every hour.
Not to be productive. Not to make content.
Just to stay human and not disappear into the day.

This is how we push back on isolation as therapists:
we stay in relationship on purpose, even when things feel messy and unfinished.

If this season feels hard, lean into your community. You don’t have to navigate this alone.

Sixteen years into sibling grief, and it still surprises me.There are seasons where it feels quieter, and then there are...
11/01/2025

Sixteen years into sibling grief, and it still surprises me.

There are seasons where it feels quieter, and then there are days when it’s right there again…sharp, familiar, and disorienting. Even the simple act of picking a song for this post. That’s the part people don’t talk about enough. Grief doesn’t stay one shape. It keeps changing as we do.

Sibling loss is its own kind of disorientation. You lose your person and your place in the story. You end up managing your own pain while everyone checks on your parents. And even after years of therapy, growth, and meaning-making, the grief still finds ways to tap you on the shoulder.

I’ve built a full life, and I still miss him every day. Both can be true.

If you’ve lost a sibling, I see you. The world may not name your grief often, but it deserves space, especially today on National Sibling Bereavement Day.

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Follow for grief podcast, mental health, self-care, sass, and dark humor content whether you’re grieving or you’re a mental health professional needing more modern grief language.
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Wanting more grief specific support? Check out my grief journal, Authentically Unapologetic: A Grief Journal available for purchase thru the link in my bio!
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Your grief is valid and gets to take up space. I’m glad you’re here.
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All content created is meant for entertainment and educational purposes only. This is not a replacement for therapy.

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