Scarred Not Silent: Stories from the intersections of survival

Grieving the Man I Used to Be

Rodney Washington Season 3 Episode 8

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Grief for the Old Me” is about something people rarely say out loud: sometimes you are not grieving a person. You are grieving yourself.

Here’s the thinking behind it.

When someone goes through illness, transplant, disability, career disruption, or any major life shift, there is a quiet identity death. The version of you that ran faster, earned differently, dreamed differently, and planned differently — that person changes. Not disappears. Changes.

And change carries loss.

This episode would not be about self-pity. It would be about identity transition.

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