Identity Shifts & Secondary Loss: Making Space for Every Part of Your Grief 2|05

The Living Loss | Navigating Invisible Grief & Identity · Sep 17, 2026 · 45m · transcript

Daiana Bernard and Cassandra Harris-Towner open with a candid conversation before moving into the heart of the episode: how cumulative grief, secondary loss, identity loss, and estrangement can pile up when life falls apart. They also prepare listeners for an upcoming interview with Andy Ellwood, whose story illustrates these themes in a deeply personal way. In this episode, they connect clinical language to lived experience, explore how faith, community, and therapy can all be both helpful and complicated, and end with reflection questions designed to help listeners make meaning from their…