EOLC dispatch - The Grief We Don’t Notice: Climate Loss, Death, Dying, Anxiety, and Carrying the Emotional Weight

Send us Fan MailWelcome to End-of-Life Conversations Current Events, where we tackle important topics like death and grief. In this weekly dispatch episode, we continue our discussion on noticing things we are grieving and experiencing loss, emphasizing the importance of awareness in our daily lives. Many of us are carrying a low-level heaviness we can’t quite name.We move through daily life seeing signs of loss, dead leaves, disappearing birds, climate headlines, and we tell ourselves it’s normal, or that we should be used to it by now. When anxiety shows up, we often assume it’s personal, a mental health issue, or something we need to manage better, instead of asking what we’re responding to.What if this weight isn’t a failure to cope, but a sign that you’re paying attention? What if grief doesn’t only arrive after a major death, but quietly accumulates through everyday encounters with loss and ecological change?In this episode, we'll discuss:How climate change, environmental loss, and everyday signs of death affect us emotionally, even when we don’t consciously name them. How unacknowledged loss shows up in the body as tension, unease, or burnout rather than sadness.We'll share somatic and emotional tools for grieving, including simple practices like breathwork, journaling, and shared rituals that help grief move rather than get stuck. We’ll share small, grounded practices you can actually use, not to get rid of grief, but to relate to it differently. These are tools meant for real life, moments you’re already living, not something you have to add on or fix later.Support the showWe very much want to hear your thoughts. Please join us on Substack for our community chat.This podcast helps anyone dealing with loss. It can guide you with end-of-life planning and death-positive resources. Check out our introductory episode to learn more about Annalouiza, Wakil, and our vision/mission to normalize and destigmatize conversations about death, dying, grief, and loss.You can find us on SubStack, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and BlueSky. You are also invited to subscribe to support us financially. Anyone who supports us at any level will have access to Premium content, special online meet-ups, and one-on-one time with Annalouiza or Wakil.And we would love your feedback and want to hear your stories. You can email us at [email protected] want to be transparent that we use AI tools to help us with titles, show notes, editing, and introductions....