Episode 8 Postmortem (WILD Podcast)

Grief doesn’t always wear black or bring food over. Sometimes it’s dressed for work, nodding on Zoom, answering emails, raising children, or nodding politely when someone says, “I’m sure it’ll get better.”

Episode 8 is about that grief—the kind we’ve been taught to hide, to manage, to professionalize.

We talked about the silent griefs that move through our communities unchecked.
The grief of estrangement. Of holding it all together. Of pretending.
 The kind of grief that doesn’t get named, but still gets heavy.

We talked about a reflection from a member of The ILID Course--where she named how young the performing-through-grief began for her. Eight years old. Eight.
 So many of us were trained to rehearse our way through grief, rather than rest inside it.
 This episode offers a gentle challenge to that training.

We also explored what it looks like to grieve at work, and how to support coworkers who are navigating loss without needing to turn it into a spectacle or a productivity problem.

Most of all, we came back to this truth:
 Grief isn’t just a personal experience—it’s a communal one. And grief literacy is what helps us show up for each other with care, with nuance, and without fixing or fading away.

Come be with us in the WILD Podcast Chat Room

This work doesn’t stop when the episode ends. It deepens in community.


In the What I Let Die podcast chat room, you’re invited to drop in your thoughts, stories, reflections—not to perform, not to get it right, but to be witnessed.
 And to be a witness.

• To see and be seen in the quiet work of grieving out loud.

• To practice being present with your own grief, and present with someone else’s.

• To join a circle of folks learning not to look away.

Whether you’re grieving something massive or barely nameable, your story belongs. And it’s welcome there.
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