What do you do with a grief that never seems to end?

Many of us were never taught how to sit with any of it so we numb out and push it down.

If that’s you, you’re far from alone.

Most of us grew up in families and cultures that treated big feelings as inconvenient, and we’ve been carrying that weight ever since.

In this week’s episode, Sarah welcomes back writer, educator, death worker, astrologer, and Many Moons 2027 contributor Fariha Róisín to talk about what grief is really for. Fariha offers a different way in: grief as a portal to love, to accountability, and to the kind of healing we do together.

If the Magdalene and High Priestess energy in this conversation has you curious about the year ahead, pre-order your copy of the 2027 Many Moons Lunar Planner HERE.

In this episode you’ll hear:

• How Grief Studies was born in 2024 out of collective grief, and why Fariha never planned to teach it more than once
• Why grief isn’t just sadness: its ties to love, trauma, and even the animal kingdom
• Why anger is so often mourning in disguise, and how seeing it that way gives us more room to hold it
• What it means to be the “emotional sponge” in your family system, and how many sensitive kids grow up to become facilitators, therapists, and artists
• How grief can be a bridge to decolonization, and why decolonizing starts with humility
• Why we need real spaces to be vulnerable, and the hidden cost of comfort, avoidance, and outsourcing every hard feeling to a therapist
• How to stay grounded in a spiritual world that can breed bypassing and ego
• How qigong and Reiki taught Fariha that energy is always available, and why she says to use our magic tools for revolution
• Fariha’s introduction to Mary Magdalene, the overlap between Magdalene and Mother Mary, the Black Madonnas, and what it means to become a Magdalene devotee

Grief isn’t a problem to solve or a stage to rush through. It’s evidence of what we love, and when we let ourselves feel it becomes the thing that breaks the cycle and calls us back to our own divinity.

Tune in to the episode here on Spotify.

Tune in to the episode here on Apple Podcasts.