Episode 4 Postmortem (WILD Podcast)

This episode marked a quiet turning point. We moved from what grief is to what grief undoes.

Episode 4 is an invitation into the layered world of identity death:
the parts of us we’ve shed, outgrown, or been forced to release—
and the ache that follows, both ours and other people’s.

We made space for the grief of being seen as someone we no longer are.
For the silence that surrounds these non-body losses.
And for the weight of other people’s expectations that still pull on our old skin.

This wasn’t a how-to. It was a flashlight in a cave.
An ask to sit in the question, not rush toward clarity.

Core Themes:

• Identity Death: chosen, forced, or slowly revealed
• The grief of being unseen or held to outdated versions of self
• What it stirs when others change, or don’t
• How perimenopause, aging, career shifts, body changes, and belief unravelings reshape us
• The difference between knowing who you were and being seen as who you are now

Core Questions:

1. What parts of yourself have you outgrown, shed, or lost—by choice or by force?
2. Who in your life is grieving the version of you that no longer exists?
3. Are there people whose changes feel like loss to you? What do you wish you could say to them?
4. How do you want to be seen now, as you are?

What This Episode Wanted:

• To be a mirror.
• To offer relief for those silently holding the grief of identity shifts.
• To make it okay to mourn what you no longer choose.
• To whisper that grief work is identity work.

If this one stirred something, I hope you’ll sit with it. Or share your own identity death in the WILD Chat Room. I’ll meet you there.