🎙️ Episode 18: Facing Fear & Grief

In this episode, we explore one of the hardest lines from Brené Brown’s Wholehearted Parenting Manifesto:

“Together we will cry and face fear and grief. I will want to take away your pain, but instead I will sit with you and teach you how to feel it.”

Danielle shares how she lives with acute medical fear and anxiety, and where it stems from.

Greg reflects on watching both of his parents slowly fade before they passed—and how grief sometimes shows up not in death, but in disconnection.

We talk about:

• Why fear can feel harder to sit with than grief
• What it looks like to walk alongside a child in a spiral
• Danielle’s rollercoaster joy and her blood pressure dread
• How Greg’s grief lives more in the imagined present than the past
• Surrender, safety, and why joy sometimes depends on trust

TMIT about Facing Fear & Grief:
We are not here to rescue one another or our children from these difficult emotions, but it really is an opportunity to be present with one another and to be connected in a new way.

If you’ve ever tried to fix someone else’s pain—or hide your own—you’re in good company. And if you’re wondering how to help your kids face big feelings without rescuing them, this conversation is for you.