Episode 3 Postmortem (WILD Podcast)

This one asked us to sit closer to the mess—not to sort it, but to savor it.

In Episode 3, we name something that can be hard to hold: grief is not a mental illness, but it often dresses up like one. Foggy brain, panic at bedtime, sudden spikes of control-freak tendencies—what if that’s grief, not just burnout? What if your exhaustion isn’t laziness, but a layered, complex process of your body protecting itself?

We looked at how grief gets misnamed, ignored, or mistaken for depression, anxiety, or even trauma. And we held up a mirror to ask: what’s trying to be tended here? Not fixed. Not labeled. Tended.

A few questions rose to the surface in this one:

• How does grief interact with mental health in your life?
• How do you know when it’s grief and when it’s something else?
• What would it look like to stop separating those things and instead start listening to what’s showing up?

Grief doesn’t need to be solved. It needs space.
It needs you. And sometimes it needs community—inside you, and around you.

So, what’s one thing you felt in grief… that surprised you?

Tend to that. Even if it’s still shapeless. Especially if it is.

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