🎙️Episode 2: Grieving Out Loud - Discussion Thread🎙️

This episode focuses on grief, especially after losing my Mum.

I speak about how grief actually shows up, the different forms it takes, how culture can complicate it, what anticipatory grief felt like, what the months after Mum passed were really like, and how that season eventually reshaped how I live and what I’m building now.

Key takeaways from this episode

• Grief isn’t only about death. It’s about loss in many forms, and it shows up emotionally, physically, and in behaviour.

• Cultural expectations can make grieving harder, and anticipatory grief carries its own weight.

• Watching someone you love grieve is its own kind of pain.

• Stages of grief don’t happen neatly or in order.

• High-functioning depression is still depression.

• Guilt sitting inside grief and needing to be worked through.

• Time, talking, reflection, and safe connection actually matter.

• Acceptance doesn’t mean you’re okay. It means you’re facing it.

• This season of grief changed how I live and what I’m building.

If you want to join the talanoa, here's some starting points:

• What kind of losses have shaped you?