Episode 29: I can't Live, Laugh,Love in this economy

Working Thru Grief : Denial

🎙️ WORKING THROUGH GRIEF: DENIAL I used to tell myself my elementary school best friend wasn’t dead. She had simply gone undercover for the FBI. Delusional? Absolutely. But grief doesn’t care about logic. That’s the thing about denial nobody tells you. It’s not always refusing reality. Sometimes it’s your heart buying time. Sometimes it sounds like: “But we just talked.” “I just saw them.” “I just texted them.” As if yesterday should protect us from today. As if loss should have given us more warning. In this episode, we’re talking about the stories we tell ourselves when our hearts aren’t ready for the truth. The pretty. The painful. And the space between what our heads know and what our hearts are still learning. 💛 Because sometimes denial is just love struggling to catch up with loss. #PrettyAndPainfulPodcast #WorkingThroughGrief #Denial #GriefJourney #GriefSupport #HealingOutLoud #GriefAndGrace #PodcastLife

Episode 32: Slipping Away

Episode 32: Slipping Away ⚠️ Content Warning: This episode discusses depression, anxiety, emotional exhaustion, and survival mode. Some episodes I show up with answers. This isn’t one of them. This week we’re talking about the quiet battles. The kind you fight while you’re still smiling. The kind nobody notices because you’re still showing up, still functioning, still carrying the weight. We’re talking about depression. Anxiety. Feeling yourself slip away while trying to convince everyone you’re okay. For the first time in a long time, I took a step back. Not because I wanted to, but because I needed to. And if you’ve ever found yourself drowning without the energy to ask for help, this episode is for you. But somewhere in the middle of the darkness, one thought kept finding me: God’s not done with me yet. So if you’re exhausted, overwhelmed, heartbroken, anxious, or simply surviving today, pull up a chair. We’ll sit in it together. Same table as always Because sometimes survival is holy too.

Working thru grief :Numbness

Working Through Grief: Episode 2 — Numbness After the shock fades, something else settles in. Numbness. The silence after the phone call. The blank stare across a crowded room. The moments where you know you’re hurting, but you can’t seem to feel it. In Episode 2 of the Working Through Grief series, B opens up about the strange season that follows loss—the part where your heart builds walls to survive. The part where you’re functioning, smiling, going to work, showing up for everyone else… while feeling completely disconnected from yourself. This episode explores emotional shutdown, survival mode, and the guilt that often comes with not feeling “grief enough.” If you’ve ever wondered why you feel stuck, detached, or like part of you disappeared when they did, this conversation is for you. Because numbness isn’t the absence of grief. Sometimes it’s grief’s way of keeping you alive. Grab your coffee, your tissues, or just a quiet place to sit for a while. You’re not walking through this alone, babes. Pretty & Painful Podcast Where grief and joy sit at the same table

Episode 30: The girl you don't know

The Girl You Don’t Know Thousands of people know pieces of me. The grief girl. The firefighter. The dispatcher. The BBQ queen. The loud girl. The girl who always seems to have something to say. But what about the girl behind all of that? In this episode, we’re pulling back the curtain and talking about the versions of ourselves we don’t often introduce to the world. The insecure girl. The angry girl. The exhausted girl. The one carrying shame, regrets, healing, hope, and a thousand untold stories. This isn’t the polished version. It’s not the highlight reel. It’s the chapters that happen behind closed doors, the battles nobody sees, and the truth that we are all so much more than the labels people place on us. If you’ve ever felt misunderstood, defined by your worst moments, or like nobody truly sees the whole you, pull up a chair. This conversation is for us. Because there is always more to the story than the eye shows.

Episode 31: Loving from a distance

Loving From a Distance Some relationships don’t end with a slammed door. They end with a quiet realization. A realization that love and access are not the same thing. In this episode of Pretty & Painful, we’re talking about the grief that comes from loving people you can no longer do life with. The heartbreak of watching resentment, hurt, pride, and pain create distance where connection once lived. We’re talking about boundaries. Mental health. The exhausting cycle of trying to earn approval from people determined not to give it. And the freedom that comes when you finally stop carrying what was never yours to carry. This isn’t an episode about anger. It’s about peace. It’s about accepting that some roads were never meant to stay connected, and sometimes the most loving thing you can say is: “I wish you well.” Because you can love someone deeply and still choose distance. And sometimes that’s exactly what healing looks like. Pretty & Painful Podcast — Where grief and joy sit at the same table.