What if everything we’ve been taught about grief is wrong?

Freud thought grief was a problem to solve. Then Western culture gave us two days to do it, so many of us learned to move on, perform strong, and grieve quietly — alone.

In this episode, Krista sits down with Carla Fernandez, author of Renegade Grief and co-founder of The Dinner Party, a national nonprofit that brings grieving people together around a dinner table, to talk about what grief actually is, what it does to the body, and what becomes possible when we stop treating it as something to recover from.

Whether you’re grieving a person, a relationship, a past, an identity, or a life you once dreamed of, this conversation will give you the language, the tools, and the permission to feel it fully.

🎧 In this episode you’ll learn: 

• Why grief is not a detour 
• What anticipatory grief is and why naming it matters
• How to sit with someone else’s grief without saying the wrong thing
• Why the people around you go quiet after a loss 
• What confident grief actually looks like
• How The Dinner Party is changing the way we grieve together
• Why grief evolves but doesn’t end