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Soft Endings
by by MavenHaven
A grief-centered podcast and newsletter about care, loss, remembrance, legacy, and living tenderly in a brutal world. lettn2mec.substack.com
Episodes
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The Grief of a Body That Needs Time
After years of avoiding COVID, I finally got it. And while the illness itself was scary, especially when my blood pressure started dropping just from walking across the house, what stayed with me afterward was how quickly I started worrying about everything I wasn’t doing. The podcast was behind....
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The Grief at Empire’s End
What happens when the story you built your life around stops making sense? In this episode, I explore a kind of grief I don’t hear people talk about very often—the grief of watching the future you were promised slowly fall apart. This isn’t an episode about politics as much as it is about...
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The Grief of Being Unknowable
How do two people share years of ordinary life together and still leave with completely different understandings of each other? This episode began with a question I couldn’t shake after the end of my longest relationship. I wasn’t just grieving the relationship itself. I was grieving the...
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The Grief of Still Loving Someone Who Hurt You
What do you do when someone becomes part of your grief… and you still love them anyway? Our culture tells us there are only two acceptable endings: if someone hurt you, you should hate them. If you still love them, you should go back. But what if neither is true? In this episode, I explore one of...
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The Grief of Being the Villain in Someone Else’s Story
Sometimes growth arrives too late. Long after the breakup.Long after the friendship ends.Long after the conversation you wish you’d had. This week, I’m reflecting on seeing someone from my past for the first time in years, the uncomfortable humanity of Beef Season 2, and a kind of grief we rarely...
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The Fight Didn’t End. We Just Started Throwing a Party.
June is supposed to be a month of celebration. Pride. Juneteenth. Progress. Visibility. But what happens when the thing we’re celebrating isn’t finished? In this episode, Chris explores the tension between joy and responsibility, tracing a thread through Pride displays, Juneteenth commemorations,...
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The Shapes of Love
What if grief isn’t love with nowhere to go? After watching Is God Is and spending a weekend supporting a family through an end-of-life transition, I found myself questioning one of the most common phrases about grief. Because grief doesn’t always look like sadness. Sometimes it looks like…
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The Final Final Shape — Real Grief for Intangible Spaces
This week, Chris talks about a grief many people might dismiss at first glance: grieving a video game. But this episode isn’t really about gaming. Using Destiny as the emotional anchor, this episode explores ambiguous loss, third spaces, fandom, identity, ritual, online communities, and the very...
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Another Virus Headline—and the Grief We Never Finished After COVID
A recent virus headline made my body react before my brain had fully caught up. Not because I thought I was in immediate danger. Because some things don’t register as information. They register as memory. In this episode of Soft Endings, I’m talking about unresolved collective trauma, COVID…
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What Women Inherit to Survive
Some things get passed down in recipes. Jewelry. Family cheekbones. And some things get passed down as habits, instincts, and survival strategies so old they start to feel like personality. In this episode of Soft Endings, I’m exploring the grief of realizing that some of what people raised…
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Staying Soft in a Hard World
Somewhere along the way, a lot of us learned that surviving meant hardening. Stop feeling so much.Stop caring so deeply.Focus on yourself.Keep moving. But what happens when softness is the very thing that makes connection, care, grief, and love possible in the first place? In this episode of Soft...
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The Grief Caregivers Carry (That Nobody Names)
There’s a version of caregiving that happens quietly. The late nights. The calculations. The moments you don’t say out loud. This episode is about the grief that shows up before anything officially ends—the kind that lives inside caregiving itself. It’s about love, exhaustion, resentment…
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The Private Ceremonies Nobody Taught Us
Sometimes grief does not fit inside the official room. This episode is about the private ceremonies people make when formal mourning cannot hold the whole truth — the small rituals, repeated acts, funny moments, and intimate forms of remembrance that help love keep speaking after loss. I talk…
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Grieving Inside Systems That Weren’t Built for You
There is a particular kind of loneliness in having something real happen to you and still being expected to keep functioning like nothing did. This episode is about grief inside systems that were never built to hold human pain well. It explores what it means to hurt while still being asked to…
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What It Costs to Become Yourself
Some changes bring relief and grief at the same time. In this episode of Soft Endings, I’m talking about the losses that can come with becoming more yourself — and why those losses still deserve to be named, even when the choice was right. This is for anybody who has felt the room change after...
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When Words Won’t Hold It: Making Something With Grief
When Words Won’t Hold It: Making Something With Grief A lot of us don’t know what to do with grief except keep moving. We work. We clean. We take care of everybody else. Or we shut down, scroll, go flat, and call it rest. This episode is about another possibility: making something with grief. Not...
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Episode 2: Grief That Doesn’t Fit the Script
Some losses get named right away. Others sit in the body without ceremony, without witness, without language anyone else seems to respect. In this episode of Soft Endings, I’m talking about grief that doesn’t fit the script — the grief of breakups, estrangement, identity shifts, and futures that...
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Soft Endings: Welcome to the Bridge
In this anchor episode of Soft Endings, I introduce the heart behind the podcast: a space for grief, care, transition, remembrance, and living tenderly in a brutal world. I share why I created this show and the image of the covered bridge as a way of understanding shelter, endurance, and crossing...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
A grief-centered podcast and newsletter about care, loss, remembrance, legacy, and living tenderly in a brutal world.
lettn2mec.substack.com
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by MavenHaven
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A grief-centered podcast and newsletter about care, loss, remembrance, legacy, and living tenderly in a brutal world. lettn2mec.substack.com
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Soft Endings is created and hosted by by MavenHaven.
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