119: Grief You Didn't Expect: Desire, Identity, and Your Changing Body with Edy Nathan

We tend to think of grief as something that only shows up when someone we love dies.

Yet, as Edy Nathan, psychotherapist and author of “It’s Grief: The Dance of Self-Discovery Through Trauma and Loss”, shared with me in this week’s podcast conversation, grief shows up in every major transition.

Especially in midlife when our identity, desires, and bodies start shifting in ways we didn’t expect.

In this episode, we talk about:

✨ Why grief isn’t a problem to fix, but a natural response to change

✨ How ignoring grief can show up as anxiety in the body and mind

✨ How grief shows up as we feel less desired or even invisible as we age

✨ What Edy calls “sexual grief”… when shifts in desire, comfort, or pleasure feel like a loss of who we were

✨ How to beg ...