In What I Let Die (WILD Podcast), Grief & Loss Educator Akilah S. Richards invites us to stop running from grief and start tending to it. This podcast is about grief literacy—learning how to name, witness, and work with endings, especially the ones that don't come with funerals.
What I Let Die Podcast
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In What I Let Die (WILD Podcast), Grief & Loss Educator Akilah S. Richards invites us to stop running from grief and start tending to it. This podcast is about grief literacy—learning how to name, witness, and work with endings, especially the ones that don't come with funerals.
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June 1, 2025
Ep 12: How to Start a Grief Circle (Even If You've Never Done This Before)
<p>You don't need credentials to hold space for grief. You just need care. A space. And the courage to stay.</p> <p>In this final episode of Season One, we walk through the how-to of starting your own grief circle—from the kitchen table to the community center to a Zoom call. Whether you've never hosted a space like this before, or you're ready to return to one with more intention, this episode offers a warm, practical guide to making room for what hurts and what still matters.</p> <p>We explore the rituals that help us listen to grief—like composting, funerals, eulogies, and emotional autopsies—and we reflect on how our inherited beliefs about death shape what we're willing to name.</p> <p>In this episode, we explore:<br /> * How to host a grief circle, step-by-step<br /> * What to say when you're not an expert<br /> * 4 grief rituals you can try inside your circle<br /> * Why silence, honesty, and curiosity are enough<br /> * How to confront your personal grief mythology</p> <p>Visit <a href= "https://bringingflowers.org/"><strong>bringingflowers.org</strong></a> to join our grief + joy work with Thea Monyeé. And join the ILID course <a href= "https://www.rfpunschool.com/p/grief"><strong>waitlist here</strong></a>.</p> <p>Thanks for walking through this first season with me. May your grief gatherings be messy, honest, and enough.</p>
May 18, 2025
Ep 11: Daily Grieftending: Small Rituals That Change Everything
<p><span style= "font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> This grieftending episode is full of rituals that meet you where you actually are. <span style= "font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> In it, I offer you small grief practices for real life. <span id= "docs-internal-guid-469fbce1-7fff-8a4e-0eb4-58cfca1e4f72" style= "font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Not just retreats. Not just deep dives, but d</span><span style= "font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">aily, doable rituals.</span></span></span> <span style= "font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> We named grief myths and w</span><span style= "font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">e honored non-body deaths (Kananápo).</span></p> <p dir="ltr" style= "line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 12pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"> <span style= "font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> We asked:</span> <span style= "font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> What do you want to stop carrying, and start composting?</span></p> <p dir="ltr" style= "line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 12pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"> <span style= "font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> We explore:</span></p> <ul> <li dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38;"><span style= "font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> <span style= "font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Micro-Funerals (for endings and expired expectations)</span></span></li> <li dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38;"><span style= "font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> <span style= "font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> The Audio Mirror (unfiltered voice journaling)</span></span></li> <li dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38;"><span style= "font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> <span style= "font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Composting Grief (turning loss into future nourishment)</span></span></li> </ul> <p id="docs-internal-guid-993a350d-7fff-5c92-e82c-56bfd6245ef3" dir="ltr" style= "line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 12pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"> <span style= "font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Episode 12 will close the season.</span> <span style= "font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> It's a how-to for grief circles.</span> <span style= "font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> A soft, useful structure for collective tending. Tune in for it.</span></p>
May 18, 2025
EP 10. Parenting While Grieving, Grieving While Parenting
<p data-start="304" data-end="369">Final episode in the Grief in Community arc of What I Let Die</p> <p data-start="371" data-end="460">What happens when you're grieving and trying to show up for your kids at the same time?</p> <p data-start="462" data-end="588">What happens when you're the one responsible for someone else's emotional safety, while still unraveling inside your own pain?</p> <p data-start="590" data-end="617">This episode is about that.</p> <p data-start="619" data-end="812">It's about the parents, caregivers, aunties, mentors, and chosen family members trying to hold it down for the young ones—while carrying grief that isn't always named, understood, or supported.</p> <p data-start="814" data-end="1177">In this final episode of our Grief in Community arc, I'm speaking directly to the tension of <strong data-start="909" data-end="967">grieving while parenting, and parenting while grieving</strong>. I talk about what happens when we try to hide our pain. What happens when we overexpose our kids to it. And what can shift when we just start being more real, more resourced, and more reflective about it all.</p> <p data-start="1179" data-end="1371">I also share a piece of my own parenting-while-grieving story and offer some questions and frames to help you explore what grief is teaching—through you, and through the children watching you.</p> <hr data-start="1373" data-end="1376" /> <h3 data-start="1378" data-end="1401">🔎 In this episode:</h3> <ul data-start="1402" data-end="1638"> <li data-start="1402" data-end="1458"> <p data-start="1404" data-end="1458">Talking to kids about grief without shutting them down</p> </li> <li data-start="1459" data-end="1498"> <p data-start="1461" data-end="1498">The "absent-but-sorta-present" parent</p> </li> <li data-start="1499" data-end="1543"> <p data-start="1501" data-end="1543">How untended grief impacts your caregiving</p> </li> <li data-start="1544" data-end="1595"> <p data-start="1546" data-end="1595">What our caregivers' grief taught us (and didn't)</p> </li> <li data-start="1596" data-end="1638"> <p data-start="1598" data-end="1638">What grieving out loud can make possible</p> </li> </ul> <h3 data-start="1645" data-end="1678">✨ Core Questions to Sit With:</h3> <ul data-start="1679" data-end="1882"> <li data-start="1679" data-end="1734"> <p data-start="1681" data-end="1734">How did your parents or caregivers grieve around you?</p> </li> <li data-start="1735" data-end="1803"> <p data-start="1737" data-end="1803">What are the children in your life learning from how you grieve?</p> </li> <li data-start="1804" data-end="1882"> <p data-start="1806" data-end="1882">What kind of grief conversation would you have, if shame wasn't in the room?</p> </li> </ul> <hr data-start="1884" data-end="1887" /> <p data-start="1889" data-end="2124"><strong data-start="1889" data-end="1960">Let's continue this conversation inside the <a class="" href="https://rfpn.circle.so/c/wild-podcast/" data-start="1938" data-end="1957">WILD Chat Room</a>.</strong></p>
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