Unmasked - Becoming Who I Am

S3E7 - The Year Death Taught Me to Scan For Danger


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What happens when loss doesn’t come one at a time… but all at once?

In this episode, I talk about a period of my life where death stacked , losing my cousin and my uncle within days of each other while I was pregnant, and how that experience shaped the way my nervous system responds to the world.

Grief doesn’t just make you sad. Sometimes it teaches your body something. Something about how quickly things can change. How fragile people are. How fast “okay” can turn into something else.

This isn’t just about loss.

It’s about what happens when your body starts to associate life with unpredictability, and how that can turn into hypervigilance, fear, and constantly scanning for what might go wrong.

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Unmasked - Becoming Who I AmBy Jenn Vanzella