Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Grief Changes Shape | Heart Lessons 20 Years Later
Grief doesn’t end.
It changes shape.
When I first wrote Heart Lessons, my family was still carrying the loss of my brother Buck. What I couldn’t know then was how much more grief life would ask me to carry.
Since writing that book, I’ve also lost my brother Brad, my father, and my mother.
But this conversation is not only about grief after death.
Grief can come through many kinds of loss.
The loss of a loved one.
The loss of your health.
The end of a job or career.
The end of a relationship.
Financial loss.
The loss of a home.
Children leaving home.
The loss of the future you thought you were building.
In this July Heart Lessons video, I talk about grief as an ongoing process, the way loss changes over time, and how writing, journaling, creativity, work, and community can help us keep moving without pretending the grief has disappeared.
This episode also connects to Licensed2BBadass through the first S: Stay the Course.
Staying the course through grief is different than staying the course through success.
But it matters just as much.
Download Heart Lessons FREE:
https://mailchi.mp/kellyorchard/heart-lessons-free-pdf-signup
Join me in The Courtyard on Substack:
kellyorchard.substack.com
Visit my website:
kellyorchard.com
Schedule a free 30-minute consultation:
calendly.com/kellyorchard/badass_call
CHAPTERS
00:00 Grief Changes Shape
00:55 From Heart Lessons
01:35 Grief Is Not Linear
02:42 Loss Takes Many Forms
03:34 Twenty Years of Reflection
04:38 Career Shift in Midlife
05:31 Living With Ongoing Loss
07:07 Working Through Grief
09:58 Stay the Course
11:07 Writing as Healing
13:20 Tools to Navigate Loss
14:18 Carry Love Forward
HASHTAGS
#HeartLessons #GriefAndHealing #LifeAfterLoss #Licensed2BBadass #KellyOrchard
Grief Changes Shape | Heart Lessons 20 Years Later
Grief doesn’t end.
It changes shape.
When I first wrote Heart Lessons, my family was still carrying the loss of my brother Buck. What I couldn’t know then was how much more grief life would ask me to carry.
Since writing that book, I’ve also lost my brother Brad, my father, and my mother.
But this conversation is not only about grief after death.
Grief can come through many kinds of loss.
The loss of a loved one.
The loss of your health.
The end of a job or career.
The end of a relationship.
Financial loss.
The loss of a home.
Children leaving home.
The loss of the future you thought you were building.
In this July Heart Lessons video, I talk about grief as an ongoing process, the way loss changes over time, and how writing, journaling, creativity, work, and community can help us keep moving without pretending the grief has disappeared.
This episode also connects to Licensed2BBadass through the first S: Stay the Course.
Staying the course through grief is different than staying the course through success.
But it matters just as much.
Download Heart Lessons FREE:
https://mailchi.mp/kellyorchard/heart-lessons-free-pdf-signup
Join me in The Courtyard on Substack:
kellyorchard.substack.com
Visit my website:
kellyorchard.com
Schedule a free 30-minute consultation:
calendly.com/kellyorchard/badass_call
CHAPTERS
00:00 Grief Changes Shape
00:55 From Heart Lessons
01:35 Grief Is Not Linear
02:42 Loss Takes Many Forms
03:34 Twenty Years of Reflection
04:38 Career Shift in Midlife
05:31 Living With Ongoing Loss
07:07 Working Through Grief
09:58 Stay the Course
11:07 Writing as Healing
13:20 Tools to Navigate Loss
14:18 Carry Love Forward
HASHTAGS
#HeartLessons #GriefAndHealing #LifeAfterLoss #Licensed2BBadass #KellyOrchard
