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grief-loss" class="text-primary hover:text-primary/80 font-medium underline underline-offset-2 decoration-primary/30 hover:decoration-primary transition-colors" title="Grief & Loss Counseling">Grief is one of the most universal human experiences — and one of the most isolating. Whether it follows the death of a loved one, the end of a relationship, a health diagnosis, or any loss that reshapes your sense of what life is supposed to look like, grief has a way of making people feel profoundly alone, even when surrounded by people who love them.
Kira Yakubov Ploshansky, LMFT and Co-Founder of Heal Your Roots Wellness, sat down with Daniela Galdi on the Still Standing podcast to talk about exactly this — what grief actually looks like in therapy, why so many people struggle to seek support after loss, and what it means to heal without "getting over" something.
About Still Standing
Still Standing with Daniela Galdi is a podcast dedicated to resilience, loss, and the human capacity to move forward after devastating experiences. Daniela brings warmth, vulnerability, and a genuine curiosity to her interviews — creating conversations that feel less like a podcast and more like sitting with a trusted friend who understands.
What We Talked About
In this episode, Kira and Daniela explored:
- The myths of grief — why the "five stages" model is helpful but incomplete, and what the actual experience of grief looks like for most people
- When grief becomes complicated — how to know when grief has moved from painful-but-healthy to stuck, and what that might look like
- What grief therapy actually involves — and why many people wait far too long to seek support after a loss
- Grief in relationships — how loss affects the people around us, and how to support a partner or loved one who is grieving without losing yourself in the process
- The HYRW approach — what it means to provide compassionate, accessible telehealth therapy to people who are navigating the hardest chapters of their lives
On Healing Without "Getting Over It"
One of the themes Kira returned to in this conversation is the damage done by the phrase "getting over" a loss. Grief doesn't work that way. You don't get over the death of someone you loved. You learn to carry it differently. The goal of grief therapy isn't to stop missing someone or to return to who you were before the loss — it's to integrate the loss into your life in a way that doesn't consume you.
"Healing from grief isn't about forgetting," Kira shared. "It's about finding a way to hold the loss and still be present to your life."
Resources for Grief Support
If you're navigating loss and looking for support, the following resources may help:
Work With a Grief Therapist at HYRW
Heal Your Roots Wellness offers compassionate, skilled grief therapy via telehealth for clients in Florida, Pennsylvania, and Delaware. You don't have to navigate this alone.
Schedule a free consultation today to connect with one of our therapists.