RP | Living with Collective Grief: The 80s Baby Experience

The Living Loss | Navigating Invisible Grief & Identity · Jul 30, 2026 · 32m · transcript

While Cassandra and I are behind the scenes preparing for Season 2, we wanted to keep the conversation going by revisiting an episode that is incredibly close to our hearts.

If you constantly feel like you are bracing for the other shoe to drop, you aren't alone. In this replay of Episode 3, we unpack the heavy, overlapping weights of collective and cumulative grief. We explore how decades of non-stop global events have uniquely impacted the "window of tolerance" for 80s babies and elder millennials, often leaving us stuck in states of hyper-arousal (anxiety and panic) or hypo-arousal…