101 | Grief and the Fear of Loss

A friend recently thanked me for sharing my grief experience on Facebook and Instagram. She told me that she was terrified of the inevitable loss of her currently healthy, thriving mother. But what I learned about loss—and this is something I learned only after my mother’s funeral—is that there’s nothing to fear. And while I can’t say I’m on the other side of grief—because I’m doubtful there’s an “other side” to it—I understood something about grief that I could only learn by being on the other side of death and loss.

In this episode, I explore the fear of death and of losing someone important to us. I describe how I’m giving myself space to move through my days. I also discuss how grief changes us and the relationship between the fear of a loved one’s death and the illusion of control.

 “I grieve for the ‘before’ me that got to hear her mother say her name. ‘After’ me relies on memory, aware of the presence of absence—moving through, pushing back, sometimes resisting, sometimes flowing.”

- Karen Goldfinger Baker

This week on the Trauma Hiders Club Podcast:

●        Lessons I learned after my mother’s funeral

●        Grief and how there may be no “other side” to it

●        The fear of death and the illusion of control

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