HeyJaredThe Dead Truth Podcast with Jen Salazar
The goal of The Dead Truth Podcast is to normalize conversations about grief, widowhood, and identity after loss — giving voice to what it really feels like to survive love and loss.
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Versions of Her: Before Him. With Him. After Him. (opens the original)
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After loss, everyone seems obsessed with the question: Who am I now? And right behind it comes another one: What is my purpose now? And somewhere along the way, I think we've put an awful lot of pressure on grieving women to answer both. As if losing your husband wasn't enough. Now apparently you're supposed to reinvent yourself, discover your purpose, find the “new you,” rise from the ashes and become some inspirational grief phoenix. Yeah. We're not doing that here. In this first episode of Ve
The Healing Power of Tears: Why Do We Apologize When We Cry? (opens the original)
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Why do we apologize when we cry? Someone we love died. Our entire life changed. We’re trying to figure out how to live in a world without them—and somehow, when the tears come, we’re the ones saying, “I’m sorry.” Sorry for what? In this episode of The Dead Truth, Jen talks about the tears we fight, the ones that ambush us in completely ordinary moments, the days we can’t cry at all, and those huge, exhausting cries that leave us sitting there wondering what the hell just came out of us. Because
Apparently, I'm Widowing Wrong: Confessions of a Rule-Breaking Widow💜 (opens the original)
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Apparently, there are rules to widowhood. Cry—but eventually stop. Talk about him—but not too much. Keep your wedding ring on if you want—but apparently somebody will have an opinion about that. Don't date too soon. Don't wait too long. Be strong. Be vulnerable. Move forward. But for God's sake, make sure you're moving at a speed everyone else finds emotionally convenient. Got it. In this episode of The Dead Truth , I'm talking about the invisible rulebook widows somehow get handed after loss—an
The Grief Before The Goodbye: The Invisible Cost Of Caring For Someone You Love (opens the original)
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Some grief begins long before someone dies. It begins in doctor's offices and hospital parking garages. In pill organizers, insurance calls, sleepless nights, canceled plans, and learning medical words you never wanted to know. It begins when the person you love is still right beside you—but life as you knew it is slowly changing. In "The Grief Before the Goodbye", I talk about the often-invisible experience of caring for someone you love... the constant vigilance, the mental load, the exhaustio
Protecting Your Cup: When Grief Changes Your Capacity For Everything (opens the original)
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Grief doesn't just empty your cup. It changes how much you have available to give—and yet we often keep expecting ourselves to show up, perform, help, say yes, and take care of everyone exactly the way we did before loss.In Part 2 of The Dead Truth Cup Method Series, we're talking about what happens once you recognize what's draining you.We'll talk about how grief changes emotional capacity, why boundaries can suddenly become necessary, the guilt that can come with saying no, the people and obli
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