Nonfinite grief, mental health, and the emotional grief of feeling stuck, feeling behind in life, and grieving the life you thought you would have. This episode is about processing grief that has nothing to do with death, and why so many of us have been calling it failure instead of calling it what it is.

If you have been doing the inner work, showing up, pushing through, and your life still does not look the way you expected, this is for you. This is not about healing from grief through strategy or mindset. It is about what shifts when you finally call this feeling by its real name.

This is the fourth episode in The Lulu Essey Podcast's May series for Mental Health Awareness Month where I am asking the question: What should we be talking about that we are not talking about?

IN THIS EPISODE YOU WILL DISCOVER

• What nonfinite grief is and why finding this language changed how I relate to what I have been carrying
• What most of us have been calling this grief instead, and the cost of that mislabelling
• What happened at graduation ceremonies across the US this month when speakers mentioned AI, and the one speaker who got a completely different response
• Why the Gallup data on Gen Z and AI is not a tech story
• What opens up when grief and gratitude are allowed to sit in the same place at the same time
• One practice using music and intention that meets grief where it actually lives

RESOURCES MENTIONED

Gallup survey on Gen Z sentiment toward AI, April 2026

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