Lauren Johnston | Childhood Grief, Relationship Loss & Starting Over After 60

Female Voices: Life and Loss · Sep 17, 2026 · 54m

What happens when you’ve carried loss for so long that you stop realizing just how much you’ve survived?

Lauren Johnston experienced the death of her mother at 10, lost her father in her 20s, and lived through the deaths of several friends and loved ones across the years. For a long time, she simply thought of all that loss as normal life.

In this conversation, Lauren joins Teresa Reiniger to explore how early grief followed her into adulthood, especially through fears of abandonment, relationships, divorce, and the difficult realization that sometimes trying not to lose someone can mean…