This week on The Conscious Consultant Hour, Sam welcomes Rachel S. Heslin, author, speaker, and student of the psychology of identity and human experience for more than four decades.
Rachel is the author of Navigating Life: 8 Different Strategies to Guide Your Way and Rituals of Release: How to Make Room for Your New Life, both available in multiple languages. Her TEDx talk, “A Defense of Victim Mentality,” turns condemnation into compassion in just six minutes, and hints at the kind of thinking she brings to territory most of us prefer to avoid. This month brings the release of her newest work, Hearts Are Meant to Be Broken: A New Approach to Grief, a book that could not be arriving at a more needed moment.
Rachel’s exploration of Grief did not come from theory. It came from paying close attention to what happens in a life when loss, of any kind, is not given room to move through us. In her new book, she pushes back on the tidy stages and cultural timelines we have inherited, and offers instead an approach that honors grief as something we are meant to feel deeply rather than manage efficiently. Her title carries the whole thesis: hearts are meant to be broken, not as damage, but as opening. Loss, when met rather than avoided, can crack us into a wider, more honest, more tender version of ourselves.
Together, Sam and Rachel explore why our current cultural approach to grief has left so many people quietly disconnected from their own hearts, and what becomes possible when we let loss teach us instead of trying to move past it. They discuss why this conversation matters more now than perhaps ever, in a world carrying so much collective and personal loss, and how a different relationship with grief can shift not only our healing but our capacity to Love. This episode is an invitation to soften around what has broken you, to trust that the heart knows how to grieve when we finally let it, and to consider that what breaks us open may be what allows us to become whole.
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