We live in a grief-phobic society which tends to minimize loss and avoid the grief that leads to healing. Lisa Michelle Zega, a professionally trained and experienced grief coach, discusses loss and how to experience the natural consequence of grief, leading to healing and wholeness.

Grief Heals
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We live in a grief-phobic society which tends to minimize loss and avoid the grief that leads to healing. Lisa Michelle Zega, a professionally trained and experienced grief coach, discusses loss and how to experience the natural consequence of grief, leading to healing and wholeness.
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10/26/2023
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Recent Episodes

June 29, 2026
The Resilience Paradox: Finding Joy in Discomfort
<p>In this episode, Lisa explores the concept that "grief is love" and how reframing our relationship with discomfort can lead to deeper resilience and joy. She discusses how societal conditioning often leads us to reject "bad" feelings, ultimately limiting our capacity for true connection and peace. Key topics include:</p><ul><li><strong>Reframing Grief</strong>: Understanding grief as a "great disruptor" that offers empathy and a new way to be with oneself.</li><li><strong>The Resilience Paradox</strong>: Why the capacity to stay present in discomfort and uncertainty is a prerequisite for experiencing joy and happiness.</li><li><strong>The Power of "Containers"</strong>: How community circles provide the necessary space to hold complex emotions without the need to "fix" or apologize for them.</li><li><strong>Sensing Safety</strong>: Moving beyond survival-based "resilience" to find true safety by gradually tolerating the unknown.</li></ul><p>The episode also highlights upcoming "disruptor circles" focused on reparenting and reclaiming humanity, starting July 2nd. For more info: https://legityou.com/disruptors-circle-home-page</p>

June 9, 2026
The Wind Knocked Out of You
<p>What does it mean to be made whole? </p><p>Made whole not by acquiring something missing, but by returning to what's already here?</p><p> In this episode, Lisa explores the surprising connections between grief, sacred breath, and unity, drawing on Neil Douglas Klotz's Aramaic rendering of the Beatitudes in his book The Hidden Gospel. </p><p>When Klotz translates "blessed are those who mourn" as "ripe are those who feel at loose ends, coming apart at the seams — they shall be knit together within," something opens up. </p><p>Grief isn't a wound that leaves us permanently broken. It's an invitation to soften, to breathe, to return.</p><p>Lisa shares from her own experience of loss, the years of painful disconnection from her sons after the end of a 23-year marriage, and how that grief, entered fully, became the doorway to a depth of love and connection she had never known before. </p><p>For anyone who fears that loss will leave them forever less than whole, this episode offers something real: not a promise that the pain goes away, but that the pain itself, breathed into and stayed with, can knit us back together in ways we never anticipated.</p><p><br></p>

May 25, 2026
Grief in Context
<p>In this episode Lisa reflects on loss that isn't death, the disappointments, broken promises, and unmet needs that shape us long before we have language for them. </p><p>Drawing on a story from her coach Billy Soule about imagining his mother's childhood losses, she revisits her own experience at a Hoffman Institute retreat years ago, where she was asked to imagine her way into the early lives of the parental figures who raised her. </p><p>What opened there, and the conversations it later made possible with her mother, became a turning point in how she understands inheritance, blame, and the resources our caretakers had — or didn't have — to give.</p><p>Lisa moves into the larger question the episode keeps circling: mothers mother in a context. So do all of us. </p><p>The contempt so often directed at mothers, the isolation of grievers waiting to "get better" for everyone else, and the coping we do alone are symptoms of a culture that pushes grief to the fringes rather than holding it in common. </p><p>Grief, she suggests, is one of the most universal human experiences and one of the most abandoned. </p><p>This episode is an invitation to bring it back into the circle, where it can do what it's meant to do: humanize, integrate, and make whole.</p>
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