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EPISODE · Feb 2, 2026 · 10 MIN

Organizing Grief

from The Other Shoe · host Liz Cirrito

I didn’t process my grief.I organized it.After my father died, I learned how to keep moving. I went to school. I succeeded. I showed up. I learned how to function around loss instead of inside it, and I mistook that for resilience.This episode is about what happens when grief is compartmentalized instead of acknowledged. How it doesn’t disappear, but arrives sideways. In the body. In reactions that don’t match the moment. In a quiet tightening that no one else can see.This isn’t an episode about collapse or catharsis.It’s about grief that learned how to wait.And what it asks for, years later.

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