Podcast Episodes

Permission to Grieve: How Feeling It All Makes You More Complete [257]

Episode 257

This is it — the finale of our 10-part series on grief, and we're closing with a Gate that might be the most quietly powerful one yet: Other. That's …

1 month, 2 weeks ago

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How to Love Fully When You Know Loss Is Coming [256]

Episode 256

Grief doesn't wait for loss to arrive. Sometimes it shows up early — sitting beside you while someone you love is still right there. That's anticipat…

1 month, 3 weeks ago

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How the World's Pain Enters Your Body and What to Do Next [255]

Episode 255

Grief doesn't only come from what happens to us directly. In this episode of our Grief Series, we'll look through the Seventh Gate: Trauma — specific…

1 month, 4 weeks ago

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How Facing the Harm You've Done Can Set You Free [254]

Episode 254

In this episode of Joy Lab, we'll explore the Sixth Gate of Grief: the grief we carry for harm done to ourselves and others. We'll draw on the expan…

2 months ago

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Breaking the Cycle: Ancestral Grief, Epigenetics, and the Power to Change Your Legacy [253]

Episode 253

What if some of the grief you carry isn't entirely yours? In this episode we'll open what Francis Weller identified as the Fifth Gate of Grief: ances…

2 months, 1 week ago

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Born to Belong: Grieving What Should Have Been There From the Start [252]

Episode 252

What if the loss you're carrying doesn't have a name — no death, no disaster, just a quiet, persistent ache that something was always missing? In th…

2 months, 2 weeks ago

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Why You Can't Escape the Sorrows of the World (and why that's a good thing) [251]

Episode 251

We're diving deep into Francis Weller's third gate of grief: the sorrows of the world. This gate reminds us that collective losses like wars, violenc…

2 months, 3 weeks ago

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Welcoming Back the Parts of You That Have Not Known Love [250]

Episode 250

We're exploring the second gate of grief from Francis Weller's framework: The Places That Have Not Known Love. Unlike the first gate (episode #249)—w…

2 months, 4 weeks ago

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Everything We Love, We Will Lose: Navigating the First Gate of Grief [249]

Episode 249

In this episode, we're exploring the first of Francis Weller's Five Gates of Grief: "Everything we love, we will lose." This isn't just another depre…

3 months ago

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The Grief Series: The Wholeness of Being Human [248]

Episode 248

In this introduction to our 10-part grief series, we'll explain why a podcast about joy is diving deep into grief—and why you can't truly have joy wi…

3 months, 1 week ago

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