Honest conversations about grief and what’s quietly calling you forward.

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Ep 15: Why The Present Moment Feels So Hard After Loss

After loss, the present moment can feel impossible. When grief hits, you learn to escape: look backward to understand why it happened, or look forward to when it stops hurting. But the only place you can actually heal? Right here, right now. In this episode, I'm sharing the exact practice that helped me stop running from the present moment.

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Ep 13: You Don't Have to Be Okay: Redefining Resilience After Loss

We've been taught that resilience means bouncing back and getting back to normal. But after losing her daughter, her father, and facing major surgery, Kendra discovered something completely different: real resilience is about going deeper, not bouncing faster. In this episode, she breaks down the framework she uses to transform grief into genuine clarity about who you actually are.

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Ep 12: Emotions Explained: Why Feeling Them Is the Key to Real Healing

You can understand your emotions all day long. But understanding them isn't the same as allowing yourself to feel them. When emotions don't get felt, they get stored in your body. This episode is about the difference between the two, and what that means for you in your experience of healing.

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Ep 10: Twelve Years After Losing My Daughter, My Body Was Still Holding Grief

Kendra breaks down three cultural messages about grief that felt misaligned in her experience: that grief has an ending, that it stays where you put it, and that feeling your feelings sets you back instead of moving you forward. She also shares her story of loss, including a recent hike that taught me exactly where my body had been holding grief for over a decade.

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Introducing Truth After Loss Podcast

This isn't a podcast about grief. Although we’ll talk about grief a lot. It's about who you become after loss strips away the noise, and you start to wonder, “Who am I now that everything has changed?” Welcome to Truth After Loss.

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Ep 8: Your Nervous System Is Wrecking Your Relationships. Here's Why.

Survival mode doesn’t just happen during a crisis. For a lot of us, it was just Tuesday. And when your nervous system lives there long enough, it can quietly wreck your relationships. Not because you don't care. Because you don't have the capacity to give. Let’s change that.

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Ep 7: Are Your Core Beliefs Actually True? The Question Most Women Never Stop to Ask

What if the beliefs you've been living by were never really yours to begin with?

In this episode, we're getting into the hidden rules running your life — where they came from, why they feel so true, and what happens when you finally stop to ask: is this actually me? Real talk, a personal story from Bali, and a 3-step process you can use today.

Hit play. This one goes deep.

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Ep 5: How to Live a Meaningful Life Without Knowing Your Purpose

I spent most of my life without a passion. No big calling. Nothing that made me leap out of bed. And I carried a lot of quiet shame about that because our society says you should have a passion, a purpose, or a calling. In this episode, I'm sharing four truths about meaning that took all that pressure off.

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Ep 4: Depth Before Direction: How to Set Goals From Inner Truth, Not Pressure

What if the exhaustion and tension you feel isn’t because you’re doing too little but because you’re moving in a direction that isn’t rooted in your truth?

In this episode, we explore why depth must come before direction and how listening to your inner wisdom can change the way you set goals, make decisions, and move forward in your life.

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Ep 2: Beyond Resistance: Why Your New Year’s Resolutions Don't Stick

Change is hard, even when it's a change you actually want.

In today’s episode, I discuss why resistance shows up and explain why it's not your fault...it's how your brain is wired. We’ll explore how cultural expectations, constant mental noise, and survival mode quietly pull us away from ourselves. And more importantly, what happens when you stop pushing against your brain's natural state and start working with it instead.

Are you tired of striving to make positive change in your life and feeling like a failure? Are you ready for a gentler way forward? If so, this is your invitation to soften into change in a way that feels good and to reconnect with the truth that's already inside you.

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