I don’t think I’ve had a conversation on this podcast that captures the sheer whiplash of compounded loss quite like this one. My guest today is Emilie Eiden—flight attendant, grief and trauma-informed coach, and the heart behind the Instagram community Emily in Transit—and her story is one of those that reminds you grief doesn’t wait its turn.

Emilie spent most of her twenties caring for her father as he lived with multiple sclerosis and cancer, watching him lose mobility year after year until he passed away when she was 26. Just when you think that’s the whole story, she takes us into her thirties: a marriage that ended in divorce after eight years, and then—four months later—the unexpected death of her ex-husband.

In this episode, we cover:

✨ What anticipatory grief actually feels like when you’re watching a parent decline for over a decade
✨ Why losing “the house” that held every holiday and celebration can feel like its own separate grief
✨ The complicated, often invalidated grief of divorce
✨ What it’s like to grieve an ex-spouse after divorce
✨ How walking, therapy, journaling, and travel became Emilie’s tools for processing compounded grief
✨ The difference between triggers and glimmers
✨ How a string of “failures” (six failed nursing board exams) led Emilie to the career and life she has now
✨ Why alone time and community aren’t opposites, and how both showed up in her healing
✨ Emilie’s grief and trauma-informed coaching certification and what’s next for her

If you’re navigating a loss that doesn’t fit neatly into one category—a divorce, a death, or both at once—I hope this conversation reminds you that you’re allowed to hold it all, and that there is life waiting for you on the other side.

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