E4: Marking 5 Years of COVID Loss: What Grievers Still Need with Rebecca Soffer

Written By Shelby Forsythia

Five years since the world first shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic, grievers are still asking: Where is the acknowledgment? In this powerful conversation with Modern Loss founder Rebecca Soffer, we talk about:

  • Why COVID grief is still so raw for so many

  • How good leadership supports—instead of minimizes—grieving people

  • Our fantasy grief rituals to honor pandemic loss

  • What meaningful acknowledgment could actually look like

  • Why collective rituals still matter, even years later

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Shelby Forsythia

Shelby Forsythia (she/her) is a grief coach, author, and podcast host. In 2020, she founded Life After Loss Academy, an online course and community that has helped dozens of grievers grow and find their way after death, divorce, diagnosis, and other major life transitions.

Following her mother’s death in 2013, Shelby began calling herself a “student of grief” and now devotes her days to reading, writing, and speaking about loss. Through a combination of mindfulness tools and intuitive, open-ended questions, she guides her clients to welcome grief as a teacher and create meaningful lives that honor and include the heartbreaks they’ve faced. Her work has been featured in Huffington Post, Bustle, and The Oprah Magazine.

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