Grief Isn’t a Season—It’s a Language We’re All Still Learning
“They told us time would heal everything. They forgot to mention what it would take from us first.”
Grief doesn’t arrive on schedule, and it damn sure doesn’t leave quietly.
It walks into your life uninvited, rearranges your mind, disorients your nervous system, and dares you to pretend everything’s fine. In our community, we wear grief like it's normal—because it is. But normal doesn’t mean we’ve healed.
Some of us are grieving the living.
Some of us are grieving the childhood we never had.
Some of us are grieving the version of ourselves that we had to bury just to survive.
Why We Need to Relearn Grief
In Black and Brown communities, grief is often layered—complicated by systemic trauma, generational loss, incarceration, abandonment, and survival-based silence. We don’t get to just cry and collapse. We're often expected to keep moving while quietly falling apart.
We grieve differently because we were raised to suppress pain for the sake of survival.
But here's the truth: What we suppress, we somatize. Grief doesn’t disappear—it deposits itself in our body, our relationships, and our identity.
That’s why The Trigger and The Truth exists.
To give voice to the unspoken grief that’s been passed down, inherited, and ignored.
The Faces of Grief: It’s Not Just Death
Let’s expand the definition. Grief isn’t only about losing someone to death. It shows up in many forms:
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Grieving a parent who was emotionally unavailable
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Grieving a friendship that faded without closure
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Grieving the self you were before the trauma hit
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Grieving a dream you had to let go of
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Grieving safety, innocence, community, identity
And let’s not forget the collective grief—from the crack era to COVID, we’ve endured cultural losses that rewired our emotional blueprints.
Healing Through Grief: What It Takes
Grief isn’t something you get over. It’s something you learn to walk with.
Here’s what I’ve learned along the way:
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Grief is non-linear. You don’t graduate from it. You revisit it, you befriend it, you evolve with it.
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Unexpressed grief turns into anger, anxiety, or depression. Silence is not healing.
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Ritual matters. Whether it’s journaling, altar building, therapy, or storytelling—grief needs expression.
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You don’t have to be strong all the time. That strength might be killing you softly.
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Grief work is community work. We heal better when we don’t do it alone.
That’s why The Trigger and The Truth isn’t just a podcast. It’s a healing circle disguised as a conversation.
For Future Guests: Come Speak Your Truth
If you’ve survived grief—any kind—your story matters here.
If you’re a therapist, healer, social worker, or someone with lived experience who’s had to crawl your way back from loss, we want to hear from you.
This is a platform for real conversations, not performance.
It’s a space for truth, not toxic positivity.
We don’t want your polish—we want your process.
For Sponsors: Why Partner With Us
Grief is a $100B wellness market hiding in plain sight. People are hungry for healing—but they’re not looking for brands. They’re looking for belonging.
By sponsoring The Trigger and The Truth, you align your brand with:
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Emotional wellness
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Culturally-responsive care
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Authentic community engagement
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Impact-driven storytelling
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Vulnerability that builds loyalty and trust
We speak to an audience that heals loudly, invests in growth, and shares what works. Whether you're a mental health brand, wellness product, nonprofit, or creative platform, your support fuels radical healing.
Call to Action: Let’s Heal Out Loud
To everyone grieving something they can’t explain—this space is for you.
To everyone holding pain in their chest and still showing up—this podcast was built with you in mind.
And to the people who thought they were “over it” until the next trigger pulled it all back—this is your reminder:
You’re not crazy. You’re grieving. And grief is sacred.
Let’s normalize naming it.
Let’s normalize tending to it.
Let’s normalize healing through it.
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