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Grief is a Language ™ with John Onwuchekwa

John Onwuchekwa 4 Episodes Aug 24, 2026

Grief Is A Language™ is a podcast about grief and loss, hosted by John Onwuchekwa. Each episode features conversations with psychologists, neuroscientists, artists, and everyday people about different forms of grief. The show explores grief from death to divorce, identity, and unfulfilled dreams. It presents grief not as a journey to finish but as a language to learn.

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5: Compounded Grief: Coping With Multiple Losses and the Numbness of Grief with Natalie Lauren Sims Aug 24, 2026 4372 On today’s episode, John Onwuchekwa sits down with Natalie Lauren Sims to explore what grief actually feels like when loss comes in waves. From losing multiple family members in a short span of time to navigating numbness, rage, memory loss, faith, and radical acceptance, this conversation offers a powerful framework for understanding grief beyond clichés and stages. John shares his four-part mod

Trip Lee on Chronic Illness, Ambiguous Grief and Feeling Alone Aug 20, 2026 712 John Onwuchekwa and Trip Lee explore how the brain learns to live after loss and why chronic illness creates a uniquely lonely kind of grief. Trip opens up about grieving his health, energy, and independence without a funeral, anniversary, or community that always recognizes what he has lost. GUEST RESOURCES Trip Lee IG | @triplee RESOURCES John Onwuchekwa  Website | johno.co  IG

4: Intangible & Tangible Grief: Trip Lee on His Chronic Fatigue Diagnosis, Losing His Father, and the Life He Thought He'd Live Aug 17, 2026 3684 Grief, chronic illness, and unshakable resilience—this powerful episode dives into Trip’s raw 18-year journey with chronic fatigue syndrome.  Today, John Onwuchekwa sits down with Trip Lee, Christian rapper, singer, and preacher, for an insightful conversation. John and Trip unpack the silent weight of living with an invisible illness, especially how it steals not just energy, but dreams, id

Why Your Brain Still Expects the Person You Lost with Dr. Mary-Frances O'Connor Aug 13, 2026 624 Why does your brain still expect someone after they die? Grief neuroscientist Dr. Mary-Frances O’Connor explains how the grieving brain processes loss, why loved ones become encoded as “everlasting,” and why you may still reach for the phone or expect them to walk through the door. Discover how the brain gradually relearns a world changed by loss—and why grieving is not forgetting, but learning a

3: This is Your Brain on Grief: How Loss Changes Your Brain, Body & Identity with Dr. Mary-Frances O’Connor Aug 10, 2026 4629 Grief doesn’t only live in the mind. It changes the brain, affects the body, and can reshape our understanding of who we are. In this episode of Grief Is A Language™, John Onwuchekwa sits down with renowned grief neuroscientist Dr. Mary-Frances O’Connor to explore the science of love, loss, and the grieving brain. Dr. O’Connor explains why our brains continue to expect someone after they have die

The Five Stages of Grief Were Never Meant for You | KevOnStage Aug 6, 2026 613 What if the five stages of grief were never meant for the people left behind? Dr. John Onwuchekwa and KevOnStage challenge one of our most familiar beliefs about loss and explore why grief doesn’t move in a straight line. Through personal stories of losing their brothers, they offer a more honest framework: grief is not a journey to finish, but a language we learn so we don’t have to carry loss al

Can You Find Love Again After Losing Your Spouse? Jul 31, 2026 657 In this segment, Jessica and Jordan Rice open up about the complicated reality of dating after losing a spouse young. Jessica shares what it felt like to enter the dating world as a widow in her twenties, carrying both love for Jerron and uncertainty about who she was becoming. Jordan reflects on the awkwardness of starting over after Danielle’s death, the gift of her blessing to build a life agai

2: KevOnStage on Losing His Brother and Learning the Language of Grief Jul 27, 2026 4119 What happens when the person who knew you best is suddenly gone? In this powerful and unexpectedly funny conversation, comedian, creator, and entrepreneur KevOnStage talks about the loss of his older brother, Jason. Together, they explore why grief doesn't feel like a journey, why the popular "five stages" framework often falls short, and how loss reshapes the way we move through the world. Kev

1: Dating After Widowhood: Can You Have More Than One Love Of Your Life? Jul 27, 2026 4513 Jordan and Jessica Rice never expected to have this much in common. Both lost their spouses unexpectedly in their twenties. Both found themselves navigating a kind of grief that few people around them could understand. And both eventually faced the same impossible questions: Can you fall in love again after losing the love of your life? How do you build a future without leaving your past behind?

Our Most Shared Experience Is Also The Most Isolating | Grief is a Language Official Trailer Jul 23, 2026 204 At some point, grief finds all of us. Sometimes, it arrives through the death of someone we love. It may also come through divorce, illness, disappointment, loneliness, a lost future, or the painful realization that life did not unfold the way we hoped it would. Yet for something so universal, many of us struggle to find words for what we're carrying. We feel isolated in experiences that millions

What If Grief Is A Language We Never Learned? | John Onwuchekwa Jul 22, 2026 139 At some point, grief finds all of us. Sometimes, it arrives through the death of someone we love. It may also come through divorce, illness, disappointment, loneliness, a lost future, or the painful realization that life did not unfold the way we hoped it would. Yet for something so universal, many of us struggle to find words for what we're carrying. We feel isolated in experiences that millions

Grief is a Language ™ with John Onwuchekwa

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