𝗕𝗲𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗟𝗼𝘀𝘀: 𝗟𝗶𝗳𝗲 & 𝗜𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗔𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗮 𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗱 𝗗𝗶𝗲𝘀

What happens when the questions after child loss never fully fade? In this week’s episode of Beyond the Loss: Life & Identity After a Child Dies , I explore the emotional weight of living without clear answers and the quiet search for meaning that often follows profound loss. Why did this happen? Why my child? How do we move through life when everything feels altered? Over time, many grieving...

In this episode of Beyond the Loss: Life and Identity After a Child Dies , I explore the often unspoken experience of moving through familiar relationships and environments while quietly feeling changed within them. Over time, many grieving parents begin to notice subtle shifts. Conversations may feel harder to enter.  Certain relationships may no longer feel as natural or comforting.  Even moment...

When a child dies, we expect grief. What we don’t often recognize… is how grief itself becomes judged. In this episode of Beyond the Loss: Life and Identity After a Child Dies , I explore what I call the moralization of grief—the subtle, often unspoken ways we assign meaning, legitimacy, and even hierarchy to different types of loss. Over time, grief can become something that feels measured… compa...

Most people assume the hardest part of losing a child is the beginning. But many parents will tell you—it’s what comes after. In this episode, I want to sit with you in what I call the long after—that quiet space where the support has faded, life has moved on, and you’re left trying to make sense of who you are now. This is the part of grief that isn’t often named. The part where you may be functi...

In this episode, I want to begin where many parents find themselves—often without language. When a child dies, we tend to talk about grief.  But what is less often named is something more fundamental. Identity. For most parents, being a mother or a father is not something you do.  It is something you are.  It organizes your time, shapes your relationships, and gives meaning to your life. And when...

This episode marks the beginning of a different kind of conversation about grief—one that does not center on the immediacy of loss, but on what unfolds over time. In Beyond the Loss: Life and Identity After a Child Dies, we explore the quieter, often unspoken terrain of life after the death of a child—where identity shifts, meaning changes, and familiar ways of understanding no longer hold. This i...

Early grief is visible. The long after is quieter. There’s a kind of listening that isn’t about gathering information…  but about allowing something to meet you, at your own pace. This opening episode of Beyond the Loss creates space for that kind of listening— for what unfolds over time, often outside language, outside expectation. This is a space for parents living in the long after,  for those...