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Grief can hijack your mind so completely you reach for a loaf of bread instead of your wallet and then wonder if you’re losing it. This shocking experience sent me searching what was happening to my brain. I’m Reverend Joya Sosnowski, and I’m naming what most people never get taught: grief is the process of losing someone or something foundational, and it can also be the process of rewiring your identity as your reality changes.

We talk about what happens in the brain during grief, including why your sense of self can feel unplugged and why grief brain fog is so common. From there, I share the first four foundations of Grieving Awake: present moment awareness, radical acceptance, self-kindness, and non-resistance. You’ll hear how emotions move like waves, why the body’s chemistry supports release through tears, and how “pain multiplied by resistance creates suffering” becomes a real-life map for surviving the hardest moments.

I also introduce what I call the second grief: the argument with the loss, the endless what-ifs and self-blame that deepen the wound. To help you come back into your body right away, I guide a simple 5-4-3-2-1 grounding practice and a heart-centered self-compassion mantra you can repeat when your inner critic gets loud. We close with a short practice and an invitation to keep walking this path with support.

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