If you have been rushing yourself through grief — or silencing it altogether because you think you should be stronger by now — this episode is going to give you full permission to feel it. In "Grief Is Not Weakness," Lauren expands grief beyond what we have been taught to recognize it as. Grief is not only about death. It is about any real loss — the relationship that ended, the version of your life that did not happen, the person you used to be, the dream you had to let go.

We have been taught to move through grief quickly. To be strong. To keep it together. As if feeling something deeply is evidence of fragility. It is not. Grief is love with nowhere to go. It means something mattered. And things that matter deserve to be mourned, not rushed.

Healing does not come from pushing grief aside. It comes from moving through  ...