Many States at Once: Grief, Superposition, and Holding It All During Pride

This episode was recorded the week of June 12th — the ten-year anniversary of the Pulse nightclub shooting, and six years since Dr. Jessica lost her father. Father’s Day ads everywhere. Pride month holding all of it at once.We didn’t work around it. We brought it in.In quantum physics, superposition means that a particle is existing in multiple states simultaneously. That’s what grief actually does. You’re not grieving one thing and then moving to the next. You’re holding Pulse and your dad and the summer of 2020 and what Father’s Day used to mean, all at the same time. The wave doesn’t collapse into just one.In this episode: a Field Notes ritual borrowed from couples therapy, the federal research funding cuts most people don’t know about yet and what they mean for queer and BIPOC communities, a somatic tool for when your nervous system is holding multiple griefs at once, and a close that doesn’t rush you out of any of it.This one is for everyone who has ever been told to move on before they were done.🔔 Subscribe for new episodes every week🌀 oyanova.com📩 Join the Echo Alchemists: Music Credit:Production House: Kontraa Studio | UKA Music Publishing LLCContact: [email protected] Publisher IPI: 01330558471DDEX Party ID: PA-DPIDA-2024070501-I