The Highly Sensitive Person Podcast

20. Anticipatory Grief


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Anticipatory grief is a grief reaction that occurs before an impending loss, typically, the death of someone close to you. This episode is about how us HSPs can experience this grief more than others, and not just about death.

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Resources mentioned in this episode:

  • The pet photo from from SkyMall that makes me cry
  • Could I handle having a dog?
  • Related posts on highlysensitiveperson.net:

    • Anticipatory Grief
    • Empathy toward other people’s loss
    • Fearing (Other Peoples’) Death
    • Podcast music attribution: By the Coast (2004) (Antony Raijekov) / CC BY-NC 2.5

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