#29 - A Prickly Kind of Aferlife
EPISODE #29
This call begins with lighthearted banter. Complaints about humidity, jokes about pets, and even imagining what it would mean to be reincarnated as a cactus. But as the conversation unfolds, it turns toward much heavier ground. The caller speaks candidly about living with chronic illness, medical trauma, and the way humor became their way of coping.
They also share what it meant to grow up in the church, only to realize years later that it could not offer the support they needed. How stepping away from faith was not easy, but it opened space to find comfort in other places. Especially in the cycles of the natural world. Plants that thrive in pairs, compost that creates new life, energy that never disappears but changes form: these became touchstones for how they now think about life and death.
It’s a call that moves easily between laughter and vulnerability, showing how even the heaviest truths can come with levity. More than anything, it’s a reminder of how people carry their own ways of making sense of life, death, and how valuable it is when they choose to share it.
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