About this episode

The episode discusses ambiguous grief and the challenges of understanding loss without closure.

Send us Fan Mail Some pain doesn’t end with a bow, and that doesn’t mean you’re failing. I’m talking about ambiguous grief, also known as ambiguous loss, the kind of grief that lacks closure because something is gone but never really leaves, or something is present but no longer feels available. When I didn’t have language for that, my mind kept trying to solve what only needed to be understood, and it wore me out. I hold that reality up next to the Book of Job, not the highlight reel ending...

People in this episode

Host: Oluwatunmise Oladapo Kuku

Topics covered

• ambiguous grief
• mental health
• inner child
• loss
• closure
• self-understanding

Keywords

• grief
• loss
• mental health
• inner child
• Book of Job
• self-understanding
• closure

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Book of Job

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