Ep 37 - Grieving What You Can't Go Back To: The Midlife Identity Shift No One Names

Radiantly Rooted with Rachel · Aug 10, 2026 · 51m

Today I want to talk about something I feel like we don't talk about enough, and that's the grief that shows up when we realize there's a part of our life we can't go back to. Maybe your kids are older now and the years when they needed you for every little thing are behind you, or you left a job, or a relationship changed shape, or your body feels different than it used to.

Everyone else sees the milestone, and you see it too, and underneath all of it there's still this ache that's hard to explain to anybody without feeling like you're being ungrateful. I've been there. In this solo episode…