E33: Feeling Hopeless in Grief? 8 Small Ways to Keep Going When It All Feels Too Heavy

Written By Shelby Forsythia

There are days when grief makes everything feel pointless—as if nothing will ever be good or meaningful again. If you’ve been there (or you're there now), this episode is for you.

I’m sharing eight small but meaningful ways to keep going when everything feels impossibly heavy. These are the low-pressure, real-life practices I’ve used myself and taught inside Life After Loss Academy—not to fix grief, but to help you move through it.

You’ll hear:

  • One mindset shift that can take the pressure off healing

  • How to create a “Nope List” instead of a to-do list

  • A defiant (and kind of hilarious) way to muster up hope

  • Why noticing beauty can help you keep going

  • The one word I use to soften catastrophic thoughts

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Shelby Forsythia

Shelby Forsythia (she/her) is a grief coach, author, and podcast host. In 2020, she founded Life After Loss Academy, an online course and community that has helped dozens of grievers grow and find their way after death, divorce, diagnosis, and other major life transitions.

Following her mother’s death in 2013, Shelby began calling herself a “student of grief” and now devotes her days to reading, writing, and speaking about loss. Through a combination of mindfulness tools and intuitive, open-ended questions, she guides her clients to welcome grief as a teacher and create meaningful lives that honor and include the heartbreaks they’ve faced. Her work has been featured in Huffington Post, Bustle, and The Oprah Magazine.

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