# Continued Bonds: Staying Connected to Those We've Lost

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Published: 2025-12-17T10:00:20+00:00
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## Resource

On this deeply meaningful episode of The Secrets of Being Podcast, I’m honored to sit with Jennifer R. Levin, PhD—a workplace trauma strategist, licensed therapist, author, and host of Untethered: Healing the Pain from a Sudden Death. This conversation felt especially important because we’re talking about the kind of loss that changes everything in an instant—the losses you never see coming and never get to say goodbye to. Jennifer shares how her work with sudden and traumatic loss wasn’t something she set out to do, but something that found her through repeated patterns she began noticing in the people she served. Again and again, she saw the same wish surface: “I wish someone had prepared me.” That insight became the foundation for Traumatic Grief Solutions and the work she now does with individuals, families, and workplaces—both before and after sudden or unexpected loss. We talk about the difference between anticipatory grief and sudden loss, and how profoundly different the body and nervous system respond when there is no warning. Jennifer explains how sudden loss creates shock, disorientation, and a deep sense of unsafety, and why stabilization and structure are essential in the earliest days of grief. We explore how healing doesn’t mean fixating on how someone died, but learning how to grieve who they were and what they meant to us. Jennifer walks us through her approach to assessment, grounding, and helping people feel safe again—sometimes for the first time since their world shattered. She also shares the practices that help her stay grounded in this work, reminding us that those who hold space for grief must also tend to themselves. We spend time talking about post-traumatic growth—the idea that while trauma changes us, it doesn’t have to define us. That it’s…

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