This podcast is about who we become after loss strips away the noise, the expectations, the roles, the version of your life you thought you were supposed to live.
You've lived through a loss. Maybe it was a death, a divorce, a miscarriage, a job you didn't see coming to an end. Maybe it's quieter than that — the loss of the life you thought you'd have.
Either way, you're still showing up. Still functioning. But something under it all has shifted, and your life doesn't quite fit you the same way anymore.
That's not the end of your story. It might be the start of finding out who you actually are.
I'm Kendra Merrill, and this is Truth After Loss — a show about what's left standing after loss, and what you build with it.
This isn't about getting over your loss or finding a silver lining in it. Grief doesn't owe you a lesson, and I won't pretend it does. But if you're willing to sit with it, it can reveal what matters and what never did, and you can build a life from that truth.
Hit follow so you don’t miss an episode, and together, let’s explore what it's like on the other side of what you've lost.
I Don't Want My Life to Feel Like This Forever: Numbness After Loss
Coffee. Work. Emails. Dinner. Try to sleep. Hit repeat.
You're getting through your days, but don't really feel like you in them. For years after losing my daughter and my dad, I felt like I was sleepwalking through my life.
I looked fine on the outside, but I wasn't fine.
In this episode, I share what that numbness was telling me. I share a moment on a hiking trail in Lake Tahoe that cracked everything open, and why the life you built before your loss may not fit you anymore.
You'll also get a short practice to feel into your body and discover what still fits in your life and what doesn't.
If you're ready to stop sleepwalking through your days, grab my free ebook
Break Free from Autopilot at https://truthafterloss.com/ebook.
Content note: this episode includes stillbirth, the death of a parent, miscarriage, infertility, divorce, and job loss.
23 Sept 2026
Why The Present Moment Feels So Hard After Loss
After loss, the present moment becomes the hardest place to be. Here's why—and what you can do about it.
When grief hits, your brain tries to protect you by escaping: looking at the past to understand what happened, or looking to the future where the pain might ease. But the only place anything actually shifts is right here, in the now. In the present moment that can sometimes feel impossible to bear.
In this episode, you'll hear: the reason the present moment threatens our equilibrium after loss, my personal story of losing my daughter, my Bali decision, and a simple 3-part practice (I Think, I Feel, I Sense) you can use today. This is how somatic coaching taught me to witness my grief and heal. If grief is keeping you stuck, this one's for you.
9 Sept 2026
Why Yoga & Therapy Aren't Enough (The Missing Piece)
You've felt it: that relief after yoga, after therapy, after a retreat. It feels transformative. But here's what's actually happening—you're managing the pressure, not changing your life.
In this episode, I'm pulling back the curtain on why relief isn't real change. Why your vacations and retreats feel amazing in the moment but leave your actual life untouched. And what integration actually means—the missing piece that creates lasting transformation.
You'll hear:
• Why the cycle of escape and return keeps you stuck
• What "real change" actually looks like in daily life
• How I flew to Bali for relief and came home to build a different life
• The small intentional actions that compound into real shifts
• How getting laid off was the universe saying "yes" to the life I was building
• Why building a life you love is better than constantly escaping one
If you've invested in your wellness but haven't seen it translate into real-life change, this episode explains why and shows you the way out.
26 Aug 2026
You Don't Have to Be Okay: Redefining Resilience After Loss
Real resilience isn't about bouncing back—it's about going deeper. After the stillbirth of her daughter, the death of her father, and major surgery all within months, Kendra Merrill discovered that the resilience we've been taught (push through, get back to normal, stay strong) is actually just suppression with a better name.
In this episode, Kendra breaks down what true resilience actually looks like and how your grief and emotions are trying to show you something essential about who you are and how you want to live. You'll learn the framework she uses with her coaching clients to transform grief into clarity and action.
If you've been performing strength while struggling underneath, tune in.
12 Aug 2026
Emotions Explained: Why Feeling Them Is the Key to Real Healing
I've been thinking about a cultural message we get about grief. This idea that feeling our feelings is bad. That we should move through it, get over it, push past it.
I didn't want to gloss over that. I wanted to create a whole episode about what it actually means to feel our feelings.
Because there's a difference between understanding your emotions and feeling them. Between talking about what you feel and actually letting it move through your body.
If you've spent years processing your grief and you still feel exhausted and disconnected from yourself, this is for you.
Free 10-Day True You Reset: truthafterloss.com/reset10
15 Jul 2026
12 Years After Losing My Daughter, My Body Was Still Holding Grief
Twelve years after her daughter Adeline was stillborn, Kendra Merrill still carries that loss — just not the way she did on day one.
In this first episode of Truth After Loss, Kendra breaks down three cultural messages about grief that felt misaligned with her experience: that grief has an ending, that it stays where you put it, and that feeling your feelings sets you back instead of moving you forward.
She shares her own story, including the stillbirth of her daughter, losing her father six weeks later, and a recent hike that taught her exactly where her body had been holding grief for over a decade.
Truth After Loss is a space to explore what grief reveals and the life you build from it. Follow the show so you never miss one, and share your story in the comments — Kendra reads every one.
8 Jul 2026
Truth After Loss Podcast
Introducing Truth After Loss Podcast. This podcast is about who we become after loss strips away the noise — the expectations, the roles, the version of your life you thought you were supposed to live.
You've lived through a loss. Maybe it was a death, a divorce, a miscarriage, a job you didn't see coming to an end. Maybe it's quieter than that — the loss of the life you thought you'd have. Either way, you're still showing up. Still functioning. But something under all of it has shifted, and your life doesn't quite fit you the same way anymore. That's not the end of your story. It might be the start of finding out who you actually are.
I'm Kendra Merrill, and this is Truth After Loss — a show about what's left standing after loss, and what you build with it.
This isn't about getting over your loss or finding a silver lining in it. Grief doesn't owe you a lesson, and I won't pretend it does. But if you're willing to sit with it, it can show you where you've been living based on everyone else's expectations, and help you start building a life and an identity that actually feels like yours.
Subscribe to get new episodes as they are released, and together we'll explore what it's like on the other side of what you've lost.
22 Apr 2026
Why Mindset Work Isn't Enough: The Body Knows More
How many times have you been told to just shift your mindset? If you're in midlife and you've tried all the things, this one's for you.
In Episode 9 of A Little More You, Kendra gets into why mindset work alone isn't enough anymore, and what's actually been missing. She shares personal stories, including the loss of her daughter, talks about what science says about the body's wisdom, and offers three real practices to start rebuilding the connection so many of us were taught to ignore.
Your body has been talking. This episode is about learning to listen again.
Grab the free 10-Day TrueYou Reset: https://kendrathriving.com/reset10
Work with Kendra 1:1: https://kendrathriving.com/work-with-kendra
Heads up: This episode includes discussion of stillbirth.
25 Mar 2026
Your Nervous System Is Wrecking Your Relationships. Here's Why.
Have you ever found yourself pulling away from someone you care about and not really knowing why? Or keeping score in a friendship without meaning to? Or feeling like you just don't have the capacity for one more conversation?
In this episode, I'm getting honest about something most of us haven't connected the dots on yet: what happens to your relationships when your nervous system has been living in survival mode.
Not survival mode from a single crisis. Survival mode as a way of life. The kind where you're just trying to make it to the weekend.
I share what survival mode actually does to your capacity for connection, how I recognized it in my own life (including one very specific elevator moment I'll never forget), and what begins to shift when you start to feel safe in your own body.
This one is personal. It's honest. And it might change how you see yourself in every relationship you have.
Grab the free 10 Day True You Reset in the link below — 10 short audios to help you reconnect with your truth and your body. Free. Gentle. Real.
https://kendrathriving.com/reset10
11 Mar 2026
Are Your Core Beliefs Actually True? The Question Most Women Never Stop to Ask
You didn't choose most of what you believe about yourself — it was handed to you long before you had a say. And those beliefs? They're quietly running your life right now. Your choices. Your relationships. How much you ask for. How much you think you deserve.
In Episode 07 of A Little More You, host Kendra breaks down what core beliefs actually are, where they come from, and — most importantly — what you can do when you realize the ones you're carrying might not even be true.
She shares the research on beliefs and the body (yes, your beliefs affect your physical health), gets personal about the story she had to unpack in Bali, and walks you through a simple 3-step process to start identifying and challenging your own limiting beliefs.
This is foundational. And it's free. Press play.
Grab the free 10 Day True You Reset: https://kendrathriving.com/reset10
25 Feb 2026
Why Chasing Happiness Keeps You Miserable. How to Truly BE Happy.
Are you tired of chasing happiness? In this episode of A Little More You, host Kendra explores why the pursuit of happiness — a concept literally written into American culture since 1176 — may be the very thing keeping you from it.
Kendra unpacks how cultural norms, family messaging, and societal expectations teach us to seek happiness outside of ourselves, and what happens to our minds, bodies, and spirits when we keep abandoning our own truth to meet those expectations.
You'll walk away with a new understanding of what true happiness actually is, and three powerful ways to begin cultivating it in your own life — starting right now.
Perfect for the midlife woman who has done all the right things and still feels like something — or someone — is missing.
11 Feb 2026
How to Live a Meaningful Life Without Knowing Your Purpose
Someone asked me recently if I believe we all have a purpose. My answer was complicated — because I've spent most of my life feeling like I didn't have one. In this episode, I'm unpacking the pressure we put on ourselves to find and chase a purpose, and I'm offering a different framework: four truths about meaning that don't require a destination, a goal, or a plan. I'll share what shifted for me after a decade of loss, why presence is where meaning actually lives, and what Steve Jobs wrote before he died that stopped me in my tracks. If the search for your purpose has left you more exhausted than inspired, press play.
27 Jan 2026
Depth Before Direction: How to Set Goals From Inner Truth, Not Pressure
We’re often taught to set goals quickly, make decisions efficiently, and trust external advice over our own inner knowing. But what happens when direction comes before depth?
In this episode of A Little More You, Kendra explores why so many women feel exhausted or unfulfilled even when they’re doing everything “right,” and how choosing depth before direction can lead to more clarity, alignment, and peace.
Through personal stories and gentle reflection, this conversation invites you to reconnect with your inner wisdom, notice how your body responds to different choices, and release the pressure to have everything figured out.
This episode isn’t about taking action or creating a plan. It’s about listening inward first so the direction you choose is actually yours.
13 Jan 2026
How to Make Choices that Actually Feel Aligned with Your Truth
Have you ever struggled to make a decision because every option feels heavy, confusing, or overwhelming?
In this episode, Kendra explores how to tell the difference between your inner wisdom and the messages you have absorbed from the outside world. You will learn why trusting yourself can feel so difficult, how intuition speaks through the body, and how to make choices that feel aligned with your true self.
This conversation is a compassionate reminder that your inner knowing never disappeared. It has simply been waiting for you to slow down and listen again.
30 Dec 2025
Beyond Resistance: Why Your New Year’s Resolutions Don't Stick
Change is hard, even when it's a change you actually want.
In today’s episode, I discuss why resistance shows up and explain why it's not your fault...it's how your brain is wired. We’ll explore how cultural expectations, constant mental noise, and survival mode quietly pull us away from ourselves. And more importantly, what happens when you stop pushing against your brain's natural state and start working with it instead.
Are you tired of striving to make positive change in your life and feeling like a failure? Are you ready for a gentler way forward? If so, this is your invitation to soften into change in a way that feels good and to reconnect with the truth that's already inside you.
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