Episode Details

In today’s powerful episode, I sit down with Ahira Smith, Certified Grief Coach and founder of From Grief 2 Life, to explore one of the most misunderstood experiences we all share: grief.

Ahira brings profound wisdom, lived experience, and a rare level of emotional clarity to this conversation. We talk about why grief is not a single event or a five-stage timeline, but an evolving, deeply personal relationship with change, loss, love, identity, and the life we imagined for ourselves.

This episode is tender, grounding, eye-opening—and deeply human.

💛 In this conversation, we explore:

The re-education of grief: why the old models don’t work and how we can approach grief in a more compassionate, modern, and holistic way

The many types of grief we never talk about: anticipatory, complicated, compound, disenfranchised, relational, ancestral, and more

Why grief is not just about death, but about the loss of relationships, identity, dreams, health, safety, and the version of life we thought we’d have

The invisible grief of:

miscarriage

infertility

aging parents

broken relationships

lost opportunities

the child you dreamed of but never had

Why comparing grief (“I’ve suffered more than you”) is harmful—and how to stop doing it

How triggers work (a song, a smell, a stranger) and why grief resurfaces unexpectedly

The permission we all need but rarely give ourselves: to feel, to pause, to honor, to remember

Why grief is not something to “get over,” but something we learn to integrate and move with

How greatness, meaning, connection, and legacy can still arise through grief

The cultural silence around grief—and why so many of us are grieving alone

The importance of safe spaces, community, storytelling, and humor in healing

Ahira’s unique approach to grief coaching, including how she uses movies to help people gently reframe and understand their emotional landscape

Her mission to support not only women, but also men, caregivers, and anyone carrying unspoken emotional burdens

The sacredness of ancestral grief, and why she is leading a transformational trip to Ghana

This is an episode for anyone who has ever loved, lost, hoped, broken, healed, or tried to make sense of the unimaginable.
In other words—this is an episode for all of us.

🌱 Work With Ahira & Explore Her Resources

Website: https://www.fromgrief2life.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ahira-smith/

🎙️ Her Podcast: It’s Not You, It’s Grief

Available on Spotify and YouTube—conversations that normalize the full spectrum of human grief and healing.