The Grief You Don't Talk About

Family estrangement can bring confusion, anger, relief and grief at the same time. Simone explores the particular pain of silence, where there may be no clear ending and few people who understand the loss.

In this episode of The Grief You Don’t Talk About, Simone explores a familiar problem and offers a more grounded way to think about what comes next. The focus is on recognising the pattern, understanding what may be keeping it going and identifying a realistic first step.

• Why silence creates unanswered questions
• How boundaries and grief can coexist
• How to care for yourself when reconciliation is uncertain or not possible.

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The Parent You Had, and the Parent You Needed

It is possible to love a parent and still grieve the care, protection or understanding you needed but never received. Simone gives language to this quiet loss without asking listeners to simplify their family history into heroes and villains.

In this episode of The Grief You Don’t Talk About, Simone explores a familiar problem and offers a more grounded way to think about what comes next. The focus is on recognising the pattern, understanding what may be keeping it going and identifying a realistic first step.

In this episode

• How grief can exist without a death
• Why recognising unmet childhood needs can feel disloyal
• How to make room for conflicting emotions and unmet expectations.

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Go deeper with the featured book: Grieving the Parent You Never Had

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Why can you grieve someone who is still alive? In Episode 1, Simone Adler explores emotionally unavailable parents, family estrangement, and relationships that change beyond recognition. She considers why a connection can feel lost without a clear ending, and what might help when the grief is difficult to name. Take this conversation at your own pace.

Featured book: The Grief You Can’t Explain.

Produced by Edenroot Studios. This episode offers reflection and education, not individualized mental health advice.

Some of life's hardest losses are the ones nobody notices.

You can have a parent who's still alive and grieve the relationship you never had. You can leave a marriage that was hurting you and still miss the life you shared. You can lose a job, a friendship, or a version of yourself and struggle to explain why it hurts.

Welcome to The Grief You Don't Talk About, a weekly podcast with Simone Adler.

Through thoughtful conversations, research-informed perspectives, and practical reflections, Simone explores invisible grief, family estrangement, changing relationships, and the futures we imagined but never got to live.

This trailer introduces a show that doesn't offer easy answers. It offers language for complicated feelings and space to consider what comes next.

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Produced by Edenroot Studios.