EP 10. Parenting While Grieving, Grieving While Parenting 522l13

Final episode in the Grief in Community arc of What I Let Die What happens when you’re grieving and trying to show up for your kids at the same time? What happens when you’re the one responsible for someone else’s emotional safety, while still unraveling inside your own pain? This episode is about that. It’s about the parents, caregivers, aunties, mentors, and chosen family trying to hold it down for the young ones—while carrying grief that isn’t always named, understood, or ed. In this final episode of our Grief in Community arc, I’m speaking directly to the tension of grieving while parenting, and parenting while grieving. I talk about what happens when we try to hide our pain. What happens when we overexpose our kids to it. And what can shift when we just start being more real, more resourced, and more reflective about it all. I also share a piece of my own parenting-while-grieving story and offer some questions and frames to help you explore what grief is teaching—through you, and through the children watching you. 🔎 In this episode: Talking to kids about grief without shutting them down The “absent-but-sorta-present” parent How untended grief impacts your caregiving What our caregivers’ grief taught us (and didn’t) What grieving out loud can make possible ✨ Core Questions to Sit With: How did your parents or caregivers grieve around you? What are the children in your life learning from how you grieve? What kind of grief conversation would you have, if shame wasn’t in the room? Let’s continue this conversation inside the WILD Chat Room. 4s8d