Episode 5 Postmortem (WILD Podcast)

This episode names a grief many of us were never taught to notice — the kind that hides beneath to-do lists, deadlines, client calls, and commutes.

We unearth the layered losses that live inside our labor:
The parts of ourselves we quieted to stay employed.
The dreams we delayed because survival came first.
The grief of loving the work, but leaving anyway.
The dissonance of being the boss and still being burnt out.

This isn’t just grief about jobs.
It’s grief about worth.
About what we were told we had to produce to be valuable.
About the roles we performed so well, we almost forgot we were performing.

We asked some big questions in this one:
What parts of you had to die so you could stay on payroll?
What does it cost to keep showing up like everything’s fine?
And what grief has been quietly clocked in longer than you?

There’s no tidy wrap-up here, and that’s the point.
This episode gives language to the ache, but it also gives you permission —
to pause, to feel, and maybe… to stop performing.

The grief is real.
So is your right to tend to it.

This is the work behind the work.

Here's another virtual space (Kripalu) where I facilitate convos about grief.

Here's the chatroom for ongoing convo of this particular kind.