Grieving a Version of Yourself

We talk a lot about grieving people. But what about grieving yourself? In this episode of The Grief Lab, Sylvia Otieno explores one of the most common and least supported forms of grief... identity loss. The grief that arrives after a diagnosis changes your body, a career collapse redefines your worth, motherhood reshapes everything you thought you knew about yourself, or migration leaves behind a version of you that only existed at home. This grief has no funeral. No condolence cards. No one is asking how you are holding up. And yet it is real, it is heavy, and it deserves to be named. Sylvia walks through why this grief gets stuck, why the people around you often make it harder, and four practical tools drawn from narrative therapy, grief research, and somatic practice to help you begin moving through it. You are allowed to miss who you were.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-grief-lab--6886563/support.