You Asked, We Listened: What's Coming in Grief'd Up Season 2

This Thursday, we're launching Season 2 of Grief’d Up, and I'm honestly a little nervous. But the good kind of nervous, the kind that means we're about to do something that matters.

I'm sitting in my studio in Montreal (yes, I have a studio now because auntie duties call), recording episodes and prepping for conversations that are going to go deeper than anything we did in Season 1. And I keep thinking about how much has changed since we started this podcast journey.

What's Different About This Season

When we recorded Season 1, I was figuring out who I was as a single woman in my thirties. I was still learning what it meant to be enough on my own. The whole first season felt like I was processing my own grief in real time alongside all of you.

Now? I feel like the most grounded version of myself I've ever been. And that means I can sit with other people's grief in ways I couldn't before. I can go deeper, ask harder questions, and hold even more space for the messy, complicated stuff that doesn't fit into neat grief categories.

After Season 1, you told us exactly what you wanted more of:

• Grief in underrepresented communities

• Your voices and stories, told by you for you

• Non-death losses – the topics nobody talks about, like mental health crises, job transitions, relationship endings

• And most importantly: stay true to who we are. Keep the F-bombs, ditch the woo-woo talk, and never promise that everything's going to be okay

We heard you. And Season 2 delivers.

What You Can Expect from These Episodes

We're talking to artists, activists, and thought leaders who are changing how we think about grief. We've got solo episodes where I'm getting real about my own experiences. We're featuring stories from the Grieve Leave community – your stories, told in your voices.

You should tune into Season 2 if:

• You don't know where to turn for grief support. 

• You're years out from a loss and surprised, the grief still hits hard. 

• You're dealing with a "small" loss that doesn't feel small at all.

• You think you might be grieving, but you're not sure. 

• You're tired of people telling you how grief is "supposed" to work.

But here's the one that matters most to me: if you think you're grieving wrong.

Because here's the truth, there's no wrong way to grieve. That's just our society being really bad about grief. When we don't know how to talk about it, when we don't have conversations like these, we start thinking we're broken or doing it wrong.

But that's BS. Your grief is yours, and however you're feeling it is valid.

Why These Conversations Matter

Here's what I want every episode to do: I want you to hear something that makes you think, "Oh wow, someone else gets it." Then I want you to take what you've learned and share it with somebody else.

Maybe you spark a conversation at a dinner party because you like to be awkward like me. Maybe you finally have that honest conversation about how you're really feeling. Maybe you talk to someone who's still alive about what their wishes are when they die.

These conversations aren't just for the people having them – they're meant to ripple out into your own communities.

Here's What I Know Now

Four years after ending my marriage, I'm not the same person. But now I'm not trying to be.

I used to think grief was something you moved through and left behind. Now I know it's something you learn to carry. Some days that weight is lighter, some days it's heavier, but it's always shifting – and that's completely normal.

The conversations we're having in Season 2 prove that over and over again. Your grief doesn't follow anyone else's timeline, and it doesn't have to look like what society tells you it should.

Season 2 of Grief’d Up launches this Thursday. We're going deeper, getting messier, and having the conversations that actually help.

Listen wherever you get your podcasts, or at grieveleave.com