Real & Rooted is a sanctuary for honest, heart‑level conversations where we explore grief, resilience, and the quiet strength that emerges when we tell the truth about our lives. It’s a grounded space for reflection, healing, and community — a place to feel seen, supported, and anchored as we grow toward a more wholehearted way of living.
Grief & The Hidden Loneliness of Sleeping Beside Someone You Love
What Grief Does to a Marriage Lori explores how devastating loss can change a marriage from the inside out, especially when both people are grieving the same person in different ways. This episode is a candid, compassionate look at distance, resentment, vulnerability, and whether a relationship can be rebuilt after trauma. In this episode, Lori shares how grief can create emotional isolation even in the same house, why “being strong” can become a kind of prison, and why couples often end up f...
30 Sept 2026
Life After Loss: Grief, Marriage, Parenthood, and Finding Your Shoreline
Lori opens Season 2 with a deeply personal reflection on what it means to move from surviving to living after loss. She talks through how grief reshapes marriage, parenting, identity, and faith, using the shoreline as the central metaphor for healing, growth, and resilience. This episode is a solo conversation from Lori, and it matters because it names the quiet ways grief changes every relationship around us. If you have been trying to hold it all together while rebuilding your life, this ep...
23 Sept 2026
What Survival Reveals
Lori reflects on a hard personal season and the quote that opened the episode: that the worst times of life reveal the true colors of people around us, and of ourselves. She unpacks grief, career disruption, and the quiet ways survival mode can look like strength while actually keeping us locked behind a steel gate. This episode is especially meaningful for anyone carrying loss while still functioning on the outside. Lori shares a vulnerable story about a welfare check, the people who stayed,...
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