The Smart Human with Dr. Aly Cohen
Sep 24, 2026 · 1 hr 7 min · 10 segments
●How AmarAtma first came to understand his own pain as grief, and how that realization changed his life. ●How grief can affect the whole body—not just our emotions—including our sleep, digestion…
Amar Atma Singh KhalsaGuest
Aly CohenHost
And by the way, I just wanted people to see Amar Atma's new book that is just, you know, kind of really remarkable in the sense – And I say this because when I was reading your introduction, I was getting to know who you were as a kid who had gone through some life losses with the death of parents.

That loss may come through death, divorce, a breakup, or the loss of a job or a life you once imagined.

feeling the weight of climate change or sensing the world that feels increasingly unsafe and steady.

You may be grieving for something in the future, not yet here, but already present in your body.
But what's most important is actually the many types of losses that we carry that are often unrecognized in its grief response.
Now, in the first part of the paragraph, I named just a few, but in actuality, we named over 80 different types of losses.
There are losses that are in the death-related realm, but also far beyond that, aging and health-related, relationships, spirituality, education, job-related, financial-related.
There are so many different layers of loss that exist there, and those often can be material-based losses or tangible losses, and there's intangible losses that we have.
Those are losses that are things that we can't often see are systemic.
And this is important to know because this is based on the research of Kenneth Doka.
The griefs that are often or losses that are often minimized or invalidated because they're not socially accepted or socially recognized.

And by the way, I just wanted people to see Amar Atma's new book that is just, you know, kind of really remarkable in the sense – And I say this because when I was reading your introduction, I was getting to know who you were as a kid who had gone through some life losses with the death of parents.

That loss may come through death, divorce, a breakup, or the loss of a job or a life you once imagined.

feeling the weight of climate change or sensing the world that feels increasingly unsafe and steady.

You may be grieving for something in the future, not yet here, but already present in your body.
But what's most important is actually the many types of losses that we carry that are often unrecognized in its grief response.
Now, in the first part of the paragraph, I named just a few, but in actuality, we named over 80 different types of losses.
There are losses that are in the death-related realm, but also far beyond that, aging and health-related, relationships, spirituality, education, job-related, financial-related.
There are so many different layers of loss that exist there, and those often can be material-based losses or tangible losses, and there's intangible losses that we have.
Those are losses that are things that we can't often see are systemic.
And this is important to know because this is based on the research of Kenneth Doka.
The griefs that are often or losses that are often minimized or invalidated because they're not socially accepted or socially recognized.
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