Why do terrible things happen? Why did this relationship end? Why did I lose the job I worked so hard for? Why did someone I love have to die?

This week, my 28-year-old nephew, Joshua, died.

In this extraordinarily personal episode of The Learning Love Podcast, I talk honestly about the question that so often rises to the surface when life breaks our hearts: Why?

It is a completely reasonable question. We ask it after death, divorce, breakups, betrayal, job loss, illness, and every other kind of devastating change. We search for an explanation because we hope understanding will somehow make the pain easier to carry.

But sometimes no satisfying answer comes.

Sometimes the answers we receive feel shallow, unfair, or painfully inadequate. And sometimes, the question of why keeps us standing at the entra ...