Emotional Badass · Nikki Eisenhauer

Goodbye George; Losing the Man that Made my Husband

August 17, 2025·28 min·2 clips
Nikki Eisenhower honors her lost loved ones by choosing to live well each day, rejecting the trap of spiritual bypassing.
Host Nikki Eisenhower delivers a raw, vulnerable episode about grief while processing the fresh loss of her producer's father. She explores the five stages of grief with psychological insights, debunks common misconceptions, and shares practical rituals for processing loss while honoring her father-in-law George.

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A raw grief episode that treats pain as something to move through, not be ruled by.

This episode sits inside fresh grief, with Nikki Eisenhower speaking after Chris's father died and meeting the moment with tenderness, strain, and a plainspoken edge.

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When grief is fresh and you need someone to name the whole mess gently.

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