GXXD GRIEF GYRL

What happens when you thought you’d be further along by now in your healing, your career, or your relationships?

In this episode of GXXD GRIEF GYRL, Athena and Crystal explore the frustration and grief that can accompany setbacks and delays. Athena shares her experience recovering from a medically necessary hysterectomy she didn’t want, navigating setbacks, and longing to feel like herself again. Crystal reflects on career and relationship expectations, and the emotional weight of waiting for life to unfold.

Together, they discuss the difficulty of admitting you’re not okay, asking for support without feeling like a burden, and holding on to faith when something you’ve prayed for still hasn’t happened.

An honest conversation about giving yourself grace, making room for disappointment, and learning to embrace who you’re becoming while you’re still in the process.

When Healing Requires Vulnerability.

What happens when the very thing you’re most afraid to share becomes the beginning of your healing?

In this deeply honest conversation, Crystal courageously opens up about the unspoken grief of adoption—the fear of judgment, the weight of shame, and the complex pain experienced by both birth mothers and adoptees. Together, we explore what it means to tell your truth when the world has already formed its opinions.

Athena shares her own journey through betrayal and grief, reflecting on how choosing vulnerability over silence has become an essential part of her healing. We discuss why grief often makes us build emotional walls, how trust can feel impossible after heartbreak, and why healing requires the courage to be seen.

This episode is for anyone who has ever felt misunderstood, judged, or afraid to tell their story.

Because healing doesn’t begin when the pain disappears.

It begins when we no longer have to carry it alone.

Join us as we remind one another that there is healing in vulnerability.

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Grief of the life we thought we 'd have.

We are sure some of you can relate.

Life didn't unfold the way either of us imagined.

As women, we both carried dreams, expectations, and plans for what we believed our lives would look like. But somewhere along the journey, life interrupted those expectations.

While our stories are different, we discovered the same truth.

Sometimes healing begins when we stop fighting for the life we would have and surrender to the life God is calling us to live.

If you ever mourned a dream, a relationship, a career, a marriage, a loved one, or the future you imagined for yourself, this conversation is for you.

Because healing isn't about pretending it didn't hurt.

Its about trusting God with what's left after it does.

Let go and let God!

-Gxxd Grief Gyrl

Before there was reconciliation, there was grief. In our very first episode, we share the story of our friendship breakup, the hurt we experienced, the lessons we learned apart, and how healing brought us back together. If you've lost a friend, questioned a relationship, or wondered if reconciliation was possible, this conversation is for you.

Episode 1: The Friends We Were, The Women We Became.

Our Journey Through Friendship Grief and Healing.