{"podcast":{"title":"Laugh, Cry, Scream: Life with Grief & Estrangement","slug":"laugh-cry-scream-life-with-grief-estrangement-7639302","podcast_index_feed_id":7639302,"rss_url":"https://feeds.transistor.fm/laughcryscream","website_url":"http://www.griefandhealingwithchris.com","image_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/3ZnaCA30PfP68e-9F_4N6BgFxkIFZC0EZdn-caYIaTI/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:1400/h:1400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8wMDg0/YWZiZDJhMmMxMTE0/ZmExNjA2Njk0ZGJi/ZDBmYS5wbmc.jpg","author":"Chris Workman","episode_count":19,"summary":"Laugh Cry Scream is a raw, honest, and deeply human podcast about life with grief and estrangement. Hosted by Chris Workman, the show dives into the messy, complicated, and often unspoken parts of loss, family pain, healing, and survival. With real conversations, dark humor, hard truths, and zero fake positivity, this podcast creates space for people who are carrying the weight of grief while trying to keep going. Some days you laugh. Some days you cry. Some days you scream. Here, all of it is welcome.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-16T22:20:45.455226+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/laugh-cry-scream-life-with-grief-estrangement-7639302"},"episode":{"title":"Grief Changed Me And I Didn't Even See It Coming","slug":"grief-changed-me-and-i-didn-t-even-see-it-coming","published_at":"2026-05-19T18:23:07+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/laugh-cry-scream-life-with-grief-estrangement-7639302/grief-changed-me-and-i-didn-t-even-see-it-coming","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/laugh-cry-scream-life-with-grief-estrangement-7639302","url":"https://laughcryscream.transistor.fm/s1/10","audio_url":"https://media.transistor.fm/ed5d3dc9/b75a7bd5.mp3","summary":"Grief doesn’t just hurt. Sometimes it completely changes who you are. In this episode of Laugh. Cry. Scream. , Chris Workman talks about the identity shifts that happen after major loss — the emotional exhaustion, social disconnect, numbness, irritability, and quiet ways grief can make people feel unfamiliar to themselves. Because grief isn’t always obvious. Sometimes it looks like: pulling away from people struggling with everyday conversations feeling emotionally flat losing interest in things you once loved pretending you’re okay because the world feels uncomfortable with grief This episode is a raw conversation about what grief really does to people behind closed doors — especially grieving parents trying to survive life after loss. If you’ve ever thought: “I don’t even recognize myself anymore…” This episode is for you. IN THIS EPISODE Why grief changes identity Emotional numbness after loss Social exhaustion and isolation The hidden mental load of grief Why grieving people often feel misunderstood Learning how to exist after life changes forever RESOURCES & SUPPORT Website: griefandhealingwithchris.com Facebook Community: Laugh. Cry. Scream. Hosted by: Chris Workman PODCAST TAGLINE Laugh. Cry. Scream. Where we say the hard stuff out loud. grief child loss grieving parents grief support healing after loss emotional healing mental health grief podcast surviving grief life after loss","meta_description":"Grief doesn’t just hurt. Sometimes it completely changes who you are. In this episode of Laugh. Cry. Scream. , Chris Workman talks about the identity shif…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1439,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/laugh-cry-scream-life-with-grief-estrangement-7639302/episodes/grief-changed-me-and-i-didn-t-even-see-it-coming/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/laugh-cry-scream-life-with-grief-estrangement-7639302/grief-changed-me-and-i-didn-t-even-see-it-coming.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}