The Everyday Grief Podcast

Dr. Anitra Manning

Everyday Grief is a podcast for professionals, leaders, and caregivers navigating the unspoken grief that comes with life’s hardest changes — career transitions, layoffs, leadership shifts, relationship loss, death, and personal identity loss. Hosted by Dr. Anitra — a grief and change-transformed leadership voice, certified executive coach, HR consultant, minister, educator, and clinically trained chaplain — this podcast blends deep expertise in grief, leadership, organizational change, and personal transformation, guided by ethics, biblical scholarship, and theology. Here, we explore how grief shows up beyond death — and within it — in workplaces, leadership, family, and identity — and what it means to move through loss while holding onto your worth and dignity. If you’ve ever asked: Who am I now that this role is gone?How do I lead when I’m grieving?How do I rebuild after a relationship ends — or after loss that changed my life?How do I carry a death that still lives with me? — you belong here. Each episode offers: Real conversations about workplace grief, leadership loss, identity shifts, relationship grief, and death-related loss.Gentle reflection to help you process grief without pressure — and without having to "move on" too fast.Practical strategies for navigating non-death grief, professional loss, relationship grief, and deep personal transformation — with compassion and care. Whether you’re facing a layoff, leadership change, breakup, divorce, estrangement, death of a loved one, or a quiet loss no one sees, you don’t have to navigate it alone. Take the Grief Resilience Assessment: https://everydaygriefcoach.com/assessments Join the Everyday Grief Community: https://www.everydaygriefprograms.com/products/communities/everydaygriefcommunity Because grief belongs in the conversations we have about leadership, love, loss, and life — and so do you.

Episodes

  1. 04/27/2025

    The Story We Tell Ourselves

    Send us a text In this episode of The Everyday Grief Podcast, Dr. Anitra Manning dives deep into the power of the stories we tell ourselves, especially during times of grief. Exploring how grief can transform us, Dr. Anitra discusses the importance of confronting and embracing our grief instead of bypassing it. She invites you to view grief not as a roadblock, but as a gateway that leads to a more authentic version of yourself. Learn how to reclaim your power amidst grief, move beyond shame, and use lament as a spiritual practice to process loss. Dr. Anitra also introduces a framework to help you navigate your grief, including the concept of grief archetypes and the role of community in healing. If you're struggling with grief or facing a significant loss, this episode will empower you to embrace your emotions, find strength, and reclaim your narrative. Join Dr. Anitra as she helps you make sense of your grief, find balance, and step into the person you're becoming. Take this next step toward healing, and remember—you are still becoming. Key Takeaways: Grief is not just something to get through; it’s a chance for transformation.Learn how to confront grief and use it as a gateway to a deeper, more authentic version of yourself.The importance of lament as a spiritual practice and how it helps you honor your grief.How to reclaim your power in the middle of grief and avoid letting it define your entire story.Understanding and using your grief archetype to guide your healing journey.Resources: Take the Grief Resilience Assessment at EverydayGriefCoach.com/assessments to better understand your grief archetype and get tools to help you process grief in a way that works for you.Remember: You are still becoming. Want to learn more about Everyday Grief Inc. and my work? You can visit us at everydaygriefcoach.com. To learn more about me and why I do this work, visit everydaygriefcoach.com/about.

    32 min
  2. 04/18/2025

    The Grief of the Marketplace

    Send us a text In the final episode of the You Are Not a Line Item series, Dr. Anitra steps back to look at the collective grief caused by layoffs, systemic disconnection, and the commodification of human beings in the workplace. Sharing from her personal experience of being laid off while carrying others’ shock and sorrow, she names the deep exhaustion of those who are always expected to hold space — even while unraveling themselves. With wisdom from trauma stewardship, grief psychology, and sacred compassion, this episode exposes the moral injury many are silently carrying and the spiritual numbness produced by workplace systems that reward productivity over presence. Dr. Anitra offers both critique and hope — naming what has been lost, and calling us into healing through truth-telling, communal witness, and soul-centered storytelling. This episode is a balm for the overburdened, a mirror for the overlooked, and a blessing for those longing to reclaim dignity in a system that has forgotten who we really are. Mentioned in this episode: Emotional labor and moral injuryThe disconnection caused by corporate “resilience” cultureTeachings from Laura van Dernoot Lipsky, Darcy Harris, Alan Wolfelt, and bell hooksRituals and storytelling practices for personal and communal healingA warm invitation to work with Dr. Anitra through coaching, retreats, and sacred space-holdingTags: #griefatwork #griefcoach #moralinjury #traumastewardship #blackwomenleaders #collectivegrief #sacredhealing #youarenotalineitem #layoffsupport #vocationalgrief #emotionalintegrity #bellhookshe Want to learn more about Everyday Grief Inc. and my work? You can visit us at everydaygriefcoach.com. To learn more about me and why I do this work, visit everydaygriefcoach.com/about.

    23 min
  3. 03/20/2025

    Leadership After Layoffs: Grief, Guilt & Finding Your Way Forward

    Send us a text You knew leadership would be challenging—but no one prepared you for this. Letting people go. Watching jobs disappear. Delivering news that changes lives. Carrying the weight of decisions that feel necessary, yet deeply personal. If you’ve ever had to lead through layoffs, you know this isn’t just a business decision. It’s a human one. And it leaves its mark. In this episode of Everyday Grief, Dr. Anitra invites you into a different kind of leadership conversation—one that acknowledges the grief, the guilt, and the deep responsibility that comes with layoffs. Through the unexpected wisdom of Gideon’s story, we explore: Why layoffs feel personal—even when they’re strategic.The hidden grief of leadership and how it shapes your decision-making.Moral injury—when doing the “right thing” still feels wrong.How to move from guilt and shame to moral clarity.A simple but powerful breathing practice to release what is not yours to carry.How to lead layoffs with dignity, compassion, and integrity.This episode isn’t about corporate best practices—it’s about how to hold onto your humanity while making impossible choices. Because leadership isn’t just about strategy—it’s about how you carry it. If you’ve ever walked away from a difficult decision and thought, "Did I do that right?"—this episode is for you. Listen now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Take the Grief Resilience Assessment by going here: https://everydaygriefcoach.com/assessments/ If this episode spoke to you, please: Share it with another leader who may be carrying this weight alone.Leave a review on Apple Podcasts—it helps others find this space.Subscribe so you never miss a conversation that helps you lead with integrity and resilience.Thank you for being here. Take a breath. You are not alone in this. Want to learn more about Everyday Grief Inc. and my work? You can visit us at everydaygriefcoach.com. To learn more about me and why I do this work, visit everydaygriefcoach.com/about.

    27 min
  4. 03/12/2025

    I Am Not My Job — Grieving Career & Identity Loss (Layoffs, Leaves & Promotions Series)

    Send us a text What happens when the job that gave you meaning is gone? In this first episode of the Layoffs, Leaves & Promotions series, Dr. Anitra shares her personal story of job loss and how it shook her identity — along with reflections on what it means to grieve a role that felt like part of you. Whether you’ve experienced a layoff, career transition, leadership change, or find yourself asking "Who am I now that this part of my life has ended?" — this episode is for you. We’ll explore: Why job loss is a form of grief, even if no one calls it that.The hidden grief of losing identity, purpose, and belonging.The stories we tell ourselves — and how to gently ask, “Is it true?”Reflection questions to help you reframe your story and honor your worth.Resources Mentioned: Take the Grief Resilience Assessment — discover how you process grief and what care you need: https://everydaygriefcoach.com/assessments/ Join the Everyday Grief Community — a private space for those navigating life and career losses with support and compassion: https://www.everydaygriefprograms.com/products/communities/everydaygriefcommunity Because you are more than your job — and you don’t have to do this alone. Connect and learn more: https://everydaygriefcoach.com     Want to learn more about Everyday Grief Inc. and my work? You can visit us at everydaygriefcoach.com. To learn more about me and why I do this work, visit everydaygriefcoach.com/about.

    18 min

About

Everyday Grief is a podcast for professionals, leaders, and caregivers navigating the unspoken grief that comes with life’s hardest changes — career transitions, layoffs, leadership shifts, relationship loss, death, and personal identity loss. Hosted by Dr. Anitra — a grief and change-transformed leadership voice, certified executive coach, HR consultant, minister, educator, and clinically trained chaplain — this podcast blends deep expertise in grief, leadership, organizational change, and personal transformation, guided by ethics, biblical scholarship, and theology. Here, we explore how grief shows up beyond death — and within it — in workplaces, leadership, family, and identity — and what it means to move through loss while holding onto your worth and dignity. If you’ve ever asked: Who am I now that this role is gone?How do I lead when I’m grieving?How do I rebuild after a relationship ends — or after loss that changed my life?How do I carry a death that still lives with me? — you belong here. Each episode offers: Real conversations about workplace grief, leadership loss, identity shifts, relationship grief, and death-related loss.Gentle reflection to help you process grief without pressure — and without having to "move on" too fast.Practical strategies for navigating non-death grief, professional loss, relationship grief, and deep personal transformation — with compassion and care. Whether you’re facing a layoff, leadership change, breakup, divorce, estrangement, death of a loved one, or a quiet loss no one sees, you don’t have to navigate it alone. Take the Grief Resilience Assessment: https://everydaygriefcoach.com/assessments Join the Everyday Grief Community: https://www.everydaygriefprograms.com/products/communities/everydaygriefcommunity Because grief belongs in the conversations we have about leadership, love, loss, and life — and so do you.