Twenty Something with Olivia Burnett
Jul 15, 2026 · 47 min · 12 segments
Olivia sits down with Alexa Norton, creator of **Grief Shine**, for one of the most honest conversations yet about what it actually means to live after losing someone you love. After losing her dad…
Alexa NortonGuest
Olivia BurnettHost
It's so individual, but so universal, right? I read a study just before this that said 57% of Americans experienced significant loss and grief with someone very close to them over the last three years.
And when you think about 57% of Americans and how many people that is, sometimes I think about it and I'm like, man, it's crazy that grief is you like anyone you look at at the street on the street is probably dealing with grief.
So then when it happens, you're like, why am I so completely unprepared for this? Why am I so alone? Yes.
Why do I feel so alone? And I don't know how it was for you, but I felt like I was on this weird blob state for a while.
And I was also reading a lot of studies that talk about you know how grief can lead to long-term grief ptsd obviously depression and so i'm curious what that experience was like for you and i don't think it's an experience that ends i mean nine years later four years later grief is still real oh yeah it's still a part of our every day oh
yeah and i think have you read the body keep score yes i And so for me, I don't know how it's like for you.
But my initial thought is like, I am on like this weird experience, right? two, three weeks before May 3rd and like after I'm okay, but it's because my body remembers that stored trauma, right? It was like a super traumatic experience.
I don't know if that's answering your question, but yeah, it's like we go through this for the rest of our life.
And like you're saying with 57% of Americans, I was talking to my friend who also her dad has passed.
It's so individual, but so universal, right? I read a study just before this that said 57% of Americans experienced significant loss and grief with someone very close to them over the last three years.
And when you think about 57% of Americans and how many people that is, sometimes I think about it and I'm like, man, it's crazy that grief is you like anyone you look at at the street on the street is probably dealing with grief.
So then when it happens, you're like, why am I so completely unprepared for this? Why am I so alone? Yes.
Why do I feel so alone? And I don't know how it was for you, but I felt like I was on this weird blob state for a while.
And I was also reading a lot of studies that talk about you know how grief can lead to long-term grief ptsd obviously depression and so i'm curious what that experience was like for you and i don't think it's an experience that ends i mean nine years later four years later grief is still real oh yeah it's still a part of our every day oh
yeah and i think have you read the body keep score yes i And so for me, I don't know how it's like for you.
But my initial thought is like, I am on like this weird experience, right? two, three weeks before May 3rd and like after I'm okay, but it's because my body remembers that stored trauma, right? It was like a super traumatic experience.
I don't know if that's answering your question, but yeah, it's like we go through this for the rest of our life.
And like you're saying with 57% of Americans, I was talking to my friend who also her dad has passed.
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