Peaceful Exit Sneaky Grief with Lisa Keefauver
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Dec 9, 2025 
In this engaging conversation, Lisa Keefauver, a social worker and grief activist, shares her profound insights on navigating grief. She uses scuba diving as a metaphor for life, emphasizing the importance of asking for help. Lisa challenges myths about linear grief, highlighting its unpredictability and complexity. She discusses how grief is not just an emotion but a narrative we rewrite through various experiences. Lisa's activism seeks to reshape cultural understandings around grief, advocating for presence and empathy as essential forms of support.
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Origin Of The Phrase
- Lisa Keefauver coined "grief is a sneaky bitch" after bursting into tears at a party and saying it to a friend who understood loss.
- The phrase became a lasting tagline that reframed grief as messy, nonlinear, and culturally misunderstood.
Grief Tears Up Your Life Story
- Lisa compares a profound loss to having the manuscript of your life torn to shreds and handed back without instructions.
- Grief affects cognitive, physical, emotional, and spiritual health and can include joy alongside sorrow.
Grief As A Relationship
- Narrative therapy frames grief as a relationship: you are in relationship with grief, not defined by it.
- Examining stories and language reveals whether cultural narratives limit or liberate healing.
