Episode 5: How Grief Prepared Us to Navigate Uncertainty In Spain

In our first episode, we talked about why we moved to Spain — and the idea that after catastrophic loss, you have to grow your life bigger than your grief.In this episode, we talk about what that actually requires internally.A few weeks after arriving in Girona, we began navigating the Spanish residency card process — something many people warned us would be frustrating and opaque. What surprised us wasn’t the bureaucracy.It was our response to it.We explore how repeated loss recalibrates your relationship to control, how accepting the unknown becomes less optional after grief, and why curiosity can become more powerful than certainty.This episode is about paperwork on the surface.But underneath, it’s about learning to live with what you cannot control — and discovering that grief may prepare you for more than you expected.---------------------------We love comments, please visit our free Substack page for this episode. Get full access to Lost & Found- Discovering Yourself After Loss at laurelosullivanjd.substack.com/subscribe