The Question She Wasn't Expecting | Tina Yarger on Grief That Goes Underground and the Training Room That Brought It Back
About this episode
Tina Yarger shares her journey of dealing with grief that went underground for a decade and how it resurfaced unexpectedly during her counseling internship.
Tina Yarger was 18 years old when she lost her father. Before that grief had anywhere to settle, she lost a childhood friend. And then she lost her mother too. She was the oldest. Everyone needed her to be okay. So she held it together, functioned, achieved, built a life. And for ten years, the grief went underground and stayed there. It didn't surface in a therapy room or a quiet moment of reflection. It surfaced in a training room during her clinical counselling internship, in a question about her mother that she expected to answer easily. And the pause that followed changed everything. In this conversation Tina talks about what grief looks like when it has nowhere to go, the ten years of living a double life on the surface, the anger she wasn't allowed to feel, and why grief can't be healed but does get quieter. Tina Yarger is a licensed professional counsellor, a pastor and an author. She has now built her entire life around helping others with exactly what she carried alone for a decade. This episode is for anyone who has ever kept functioning when falling apart would have been the more honest thing to do. TIMESTAMPS 00:00 Opening - what happens to grief when life doesn't…
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