Episode Description

"What you thought grief was… it isn't."

In this episode of Grieve That Sh!t, Sharon Brubaker, grief specialist and founder of The Grief School, breaks down the real definition of grief and why so many grievers feel overwhelmed, exhausted, numb, angry, and emotionally out of control after loss.

Because nobody taught us what grief actually is. We were taught how to survive it. Stay strong. Stay busy. Push it down. Keep going. Humans really decided emotional pain should be ignored until it starts leaking out sideways into every relationship. Strange little system.

But grief is not just sadness. It is emotional, mental, physical, and deeply connected to the body. It affects your brain, nervous system, thoughts, emotions, and reactions.

In this episode, Sharon talks about the brain fog, exhaustion, chest tightness, numbness, anger out of nowhere, and the feeling that your whole life split in half after loss.

She also explains why grief itself is not the problem. The problem is resisting it, avoiding it, distracting yourself from it, and pretending it is not there. Because unprocessed grief does not disappear. It waits. It builds. And eventually it starts showing up in every part of your life.

This episode is also a powerful teaching on what it actually means to process grief. Not just talking about it, but learning how to lean into the pain long enough for your body to move through it.

Because your body already knows how to grieve.

It was designed to.

What You'll Learn in This Episode

• Why grief is more than sadness
• What a full-body grief experience looks like
• Why grief causes brain fog, exhaustion, and numbness
• The difference between surviving grief and processing grief
• Why avoiding grief keeps people stuck
• What it actually means to process grief
• How unprocessed grief starts showing up in daily life

Questions to Sit With After Listening

What was I taught grief should look like?

What emotions have I been trying to avoid?

Am I processing my grief… or surviving it?

Where is grief showing up in my body right now?

Homework for You

Write this question at the top of a page:

"What was I taught to do with grief?"

Then answer honestly.

Because most people were never taught how to process grief.

They were taught how to hide it.

Resources + Next Steps

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Because healing starts when you stop resisting the pain and finally understand what grief is actually doing inside of you.