Oct 5, 2026 · 33 min · 11 segments
Send us Fan Mail What do you do when the thing nobody prepares you for actually happens? The phone call, the layoff email, the diagnosis, the…
Anne Marie PizarroHostI'm talking about before the phone call, before the layoff email that starts off with, "Due to restructuring," before the doctor sits down instead of standing up, before the divorce papers, the evacuation order, or the text from a friend that says, "I think we need some space." One minute life feels normal.
You're thinking about what to make for dinner, and the next minute, the floor drops out from under you.
It's not just the death of someone you love or losing your job or losing your income.
A breakup is actually the loss of a future that you might have already started living in your head.
It takes your photos, your memories, and your sense of safety all at once.
I'm talking about different storms that cascade into the same kind of grief.
Whether it's loss, transition, and endings, well, they're all part of the cycle of life, and it's the one experience that every soul who has ever incarnated on this planet has in common with each other.
In Ireland and Scotland, the women of the village would keen over the dead, raising these long rising lament that told the story of a life and gave everyone in that room and space permission to fall apart.
They often start slow and mournful, and they end with the music turned all the way up, celebrating what that life meant.
When the harvest failed or when the floods came or when a family lost everything, people gathered and sang about it.
I'm talking about before the phone call, before the layoff email that starts off with, "Due to restructuring," before the doctor sits down instead of standing up, before the divorce papers, the evacuation order, or the text from a friend that says, "I think we need some space." One minute life feels normal.
You're thinking about what to make for dinner, and the next minute, the floor drops out from under you.
It's not just the death of someone you love or losing your job or losing your income.
A breakup is actually the loss of a future that you might have already started living in your head.
It takes your photos, your memories, and your sense of safety all at once.
I'm talking about different storms that cascade into the same kind of grief.
Whether it's loss, transition, and endings, well, they're all part of the cycle of life, and it's the one experience that every soul who has ever incarnated on this planet has in common with each other.
In Ireland and Scotland, the women of the village would keen over the dead, raising these long rising lament that told the story of a life and gave everyone in that room and space permission to fall apart.
They often start slow and mournful, and they end with the music turned all the way up, celebrating what that life meant.
When the harvest failed or when the floods came or when a family lost everything, people gathered and sang about it.
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