# Dr. Rondalyn Whitney on Why Grief Changes Your Body, Identity, and Daily Life

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Podcast: [From Guilt to Good with Jeanette Yates](https://stenobird.com/podcast/from-guilt-to-good-with-jeanette-yates-6607927)
Published: 2026-06-16T11:00:00+00:00
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Send us Fan Mail Grief is not just sadness. It can affect your body, your brain, your routines, your relationships, and your sense of who you are. In this episode of From Guilt to Good, Jeanette Yates talks with Dr. Rondalyn Varney Whitney, an occupational therapist, narrative medicine practitioner, and author of Habits of Widows and Lies in the Afterlife. After the traumatic death of her husband in 2020, Rondalyn began writing every day for a year and a day, using the same evidence-based jou...

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