The Other Shoe

Liz Cirrito
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The Other Shoe is a podcast about grief, anxiety, and the moments in between. It’s for the times when nothing has happened yet, but your body is already listening. Some episodes are personal. Some are conversations. All of them stay close to the body and the waiting. This is not a place for quick fixes or tidy conclusions. It’s a place to sit, breathe, and feel a little less alone.

Episodes

  1. FEB 2

    Bye for Now

    On September 11, 2018, my stepdad called me. I didn’t answer. Not out of avoidance. Out of a life that was finally moving forward. He left a voicemail I assumed I had time to hear later. Seven days later, he was gone. This episode is about that unanswered call. About ordinary words that only become heavy in hindsight. About how silence stops feeling neutral after loss, and how the body learns to listen for what might disappear next. I talk about the vigilance that followed, the bucket list he wrote and framed, and what it’s like to watch plans outlive the person who made them. About how grief doesn’t always arrive as collapse, but as posture. As endurance mistaken for strength. This isn’t a redemption story. It’s about what happens when grief is organized instead of processed, and what it asks for when you finally stop running.

    9 min

  2. FEB 2

    Organizing Grief

    I didn’t process my grief. I organized it. After my father died, I learned how to keep moving. I went to school. I succeeded. I showed up. I learned how to function around loss instead of inside it, and I mistook that for resilience. This episode is about what happens when grief is compartmentalized instead of acknowledged. How it doesn’t disappear, but arrives sideways. In the body. In reactions that don’t match the moment. In a quiet tightening that no one else can see. This isn’t an episode about collapse or catharsis. It’s about grief that learned how to wait. And what it asks for, years later.

    11 min

  3. JAN 15

    The First Shoe

    In this episode,  I talk about the first shoe, beginning with the day my father died when I was fifteen. I trace what that first loss taught my nervous system. This episode isn’t about dramatic grief or collapse. It’s about the quieter ways loss settles in. The way vigilance can masquerade as responsibility. The way joy can arrive with tension. The way the first shoe doesn’t just fall. It teaches you how to listen for the next one.

    7 min

  4. JAN 15

    The Space Between Loss

    In this first episode of The Other Shoe, I talk about the space most of us live in after loss but before we understand it. The waiting.The holding of breath.The feeling that something has already changed, even if nothing has “officially” happened yet. This episode is an introduction, not just to this podcast, but to a way of naming grief that doesn’t always come from death alone. We talk about anxiety, anticipation, the nervous system, and what it means to live with the other shoe suspended overhead. If you’ve ever felt like you were bracing for impact, already tired from something that hasn’t fully arrived yet, this space is for you.

    6 min
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About

The Other Shoe is a podcast about grief, anxiety, and the moments in between. It’s for the times when nothing has happened yet, but your body is already listening. Some episodes are personal. Some are conversations. All of them stay close to the body and the waiting. This is not a place for quick fixes or tidy conclusions. It’s a place to sit, breathe, and feel a little less alone.

Information

  • Creator
    Liz Cirrito
  • Years Active
    2K
  • Episodes
    4
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Liz Cirrito
  • Show Website
    The Other Shoe