Weekly couples counseling while grieving
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Snapshot · On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Emilie Kiser EXCLUSIVE: The Loss That Changed Her Forever
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Jun 17, 2026
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Returning to Work While Grieving
At 39:50 · chapter starts 38:06
Jay frames social media as Emilie's work, and asks what people misunderstand about returning to it while still grieving. Emilie is emphatic: appearing okay online is not the same as being okay. She shows up for her job the way anyone shows up for theirs — meeting expectations, finding a creative outlet in it — but that is categorically not a representation of her grief. She also accepts, with earned equanimity, that people will draw conclusions from what they see because they have no other information. Her deep grief belongs to her therapist and her husband. Social media has no claim on it.
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