Today’s guest is someone whose work lands like a soul-level exhale in a world that so often asks us to numb, bypass, or carry our grief alone.
Holly Truhlar is a politicized grief-tender, collapse-aware therapist, and soul activist who invites us into the sacred, communal, and often uncomfortable work of feeling—really feeling—what our culture has long asked us to suppress.
She’s collaborated closely with grief elder Francis Weller in training over a thousand people in communal grief rituals and cultural repair. Her work blends depth psychology, systems thinking, and spirituality to tend not just the individual psyche, but our collective soul wounds.
Holly challenges the myth of personal pathology and instead helps us see how our sorrow, rage, and burnout are intelligent responses to systems that were never built for our thriving. In a world fraying at the edges, she invites us back to what’s essential: community, ritual, remembrance, and relational repair.
If you are a mother, a healer, or a human walking through the long dark asking, “Is it just me?”—this conversation is your answer. It’s not just you. And there are ways through.
You can access more of Holly's work and online offerings and training at her website: https://hollytruhlar.com/
