Episode #010 Intentional Grief with Jenny Robbins

In this piercingly tender episode, Laura sits down with grief therapist and bereaved mother Jenny Robbins to explore the lifelong terrain of traumatic loss — not from a distance, but from inside of it. Thirteen years ago, Jenny’s 19-year-old son Cade died under tragic, uncertain circumstances, alone, on a walk home from a party. Since then, Jenny has walked a path carved out by pain, devotion, and deep intentionality, turning toward grief with both hands open, rather than running from it.

Together, Laura and Jenny dive into the brutal truths of traumatic grief, the questions that never get answered, the ache that occasionally softens but never disappears, and the discipline of healing when it would be easier to shut down. Jenny opens up about how grief remade her as a mother, as a therapist, as a yoga practitioner, and as a human being awake to the weight of love and loss. She talks about her continued relationship with Cade, from river rituals to quiet moments on the yoga mat where his presence is felt in the air, in the hawks overhead, in the breath itself.

This is not a story of “getting over" grief. It’s about staying and loving tenderly. It's about rebuilding inside the ruins and letting grief make you into someone softer, wiser, and more expansive than before. With rawness, Jenny shows us what it means to allow the journey of grief to take us where we need to go, and what to do along the way.

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