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The Grief Disruptor®

Donielle Young 2 Episodes Sep 16, 2026

The Grief Disruptor® is a podcast hosted by Donielle Young, who shares her personal experience of losing her husband to Stage IV colon cancer and rebuilding her life. The show offers honest conversations about grief, widowhood, caregiving, healing after loss, resilience, identity, dating after loss, and finding purpose again. It aims to provide a supportive space for those who feel left behind after a loss, countering toxic positivity. New episodes are released twice a month.

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I Went Dancing While I Was Grieving. And? | Rewiring Your Nervous System After Loss Sep 16, 2026 1147 I went dancing by myself weeks after my husband died. Then I cried in the Uber home. Both are true. Both were necessary. This episode is about what happens when the emergency finally stops and your body doesn't know how to live in the quiet. After years in survival mode, I had to find out if the woman inside me was still alive. So I did something people had a lot of opinions about. If you've l

I Took Off My Wedding Ring. The Grief Police Will Survive. Sep 2, 2026 1159 I wore my husband's wedding ring for four years after he died. Then, in the middle of recording this episode, I took it off. Not because I stopped loving him. Not because I've "moved on." And definitely not because somebody decided four years was the appropriate amount of time to grieve. I took it off because grief had forced me to confront a harder question: When does holding on stop honoring the

The Checklist Is a Lie: Killing the Five Stages of Grief Aug 19, 2026 842 They gave you five stages. Told you to feel it in order. Told you there was a right way to grieve. They lied. In this episode, Donielle Young, The Grief Disruptor®, burns the checklist down and tells you the truth about what grief actually looks like when nobody is performing it for anyone else. If you've ever felt like you were failing at your own grief, this one's for you. THE G3 FRAMEWO

The Audacity of The Audience Aug 5, 2026 1118 Where were they when you were sitting in hospital rooms? When you couldn't sleep? When your entire world was falling apart? And why do the people who weren't there suddenly think they get to decide how you should grieve... how long you should grieve... or how you should rebuild your life? In this first episode of The Grief Disruptor® Podcast, Donielle Young shares the raw truth about what happens

Trailer - The Grief Disruptor® Podcast is here! Aug 4, 2026 30 Everyone talks about the loss. We're talking about the messy middle. The part no one prepares you for. The moments when your world has changed, but life expects you to keep going. When you don't recognize yourself anymore. When you're grieving a person, a relationship, a career, a dream... or the version of yourself you thought you'd always be. I'm Donielle Young, author, keynote speaker, and crea

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