What if grief is not something to fix, but something asking to move through us with care, witness, and community?

In this heartfelt episode of Enduring Grief, Sarah Peterson welcomes Pixie Lighthorse for a powerful conversation about loss, kinship, and the deep need for support when life breaks open. Pixie shares why grief cannot be rushed, hidden, or carried alone, and how a “support core” can help us stay connected when pain feels too heavy. Together, they talk about death, men and grief, the body’s role in sorrow, and the courage it takes to let tears, shaking, silence, and love have their place. This episode is a gentle reminder that grief changes us, but we do not have to face it by ourselves.

Pixie Lighthorse is an author, poet, teacher, and grief tender whose work helps people build honest relationships with grief, healing, nature, and community. An enrolled member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, Pixie writes about sorrow, belonging, boundaries, and the support we need when life breaks open. She is the author of several books, including Prayers of Honoring Grief, Boundaries & Protection, Goldmining the Shadows, and The Wound Makes the Medicine.

Connect with Pixie:

Web: https://www.pixielighthorse.com/

IG: @pixielighthorse

Episode highlights:

(2:29) Why Pixie said yes to the conversation

(5:33) Holding grief for others

(8:37) What to say when you do not know what to say

(11:48) How work culture limits grief

(16:12) Men, vulnerability, and unspoken grief

(22:42) Why grief needs community

(28:33) Building a “support core”

(32:17) Why grief is human and painful

(35:04) Grief as an inside job

(37:03) Letting tears and sorrow move

(42:54) What helped Sarah in her deepest grief

(47:18) Pixie’s kinship school and grief groups

Connect with Sarah:

✅ Instagram: instagram.com/clearmourning

✅ Official Website: clearmourning.org

Follow us on Instagram: @ClearMourning

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