Grieving Beyond Goodbye: Navigating Love, Loss, and What Comes After

You don’t start grieving when someone dies. You start grieving the first time you hesitate over their name in your phone… and don’t hit send. Even if they’re still alive.

Maybe you’ve drifted apart.

Maybe illness is stealing them slowly.

Maybe they’re here, but the relationship isn’t.

That’s grief too.

This episode is for the kind of loss no one prepares you for—the slow kind. The silent kind. The kind that begins while the body is still present, but the connection is already slipping away.

I’m Dr. Lia Roth, psychoanalyst, author, and someone currently walking through the anticipatory grief of losing my dear Siggy, a 16-year-old service dog. But this episode isn’t just about pets or death. It’s about:

• The way grief begins in ordinary, heartbreaking moments
• How silence becomes the loudest evidence of loss
• Why we carry guilt like it might fix the past
• What anger can teach us if we let it speak
• How to stay connected to those we’ve lost—even if they’re gone in everything but body

You’ll also learn a gentle, grounding ritual that might just change the way you carry your grief.

This isn’t a step-by-step guide to healing. It’s a raw, honest reflection on how grief lives in real life—messy, nonlinear, and deeply human.

If someone is slipping away in your life—through death, distance, or time—this one’s for you.

Content note: This episode includes themes of loss, anticipatory grief, death, and emotional processing.

Takeaway Challenge:

Tonight, ask your grief: “What do you need from me right now?”

Then pause. And actually listen.

You don’t have to fix it. Just feel it.

📲 Connect with Dr. Lia Roth:

Instagram: @drliaroth

Website: www.drliaroth.com

🎧 If this episode touched something in you, share it with someone who needs to feel less alone. Grief deserves community, not silence.