Out of Patients EP412: Meet My Grief: Notes from an Orphaned Teen

🚨SEASON EIGHT FINALE EPISODE 🚨

Lexi Silver is fifteen. She has buried both of her parents. She has sat through funerals most adults will never face. She writes about grief with the precision of a scalpel and the blunt force of a sledgehammer. And she does it without apology.

I wanted her on Out of Patients because I’m tired of adults hijacking conversations about what kids endure. Lexi doesn’t need a spokesperson. She is the spokesperson. She’s been dismissed, underestimated, and told she’s “so strong” more times than she can count. That phrase makes her cringe. It makes me cringe too.

We talked about losing her mom on Christmas morning. We talked about her dad dying nine months later. We talked about pills, hospitals, trolls on Instagram, and the garbage things people say when they don’t know what else to say. We also laughed. A lot. She quoted her own poems. She roasted me for being old. She said “whilst” like she was channeling Shakespeare and somehow pulled it off.

This episode is raw and unflinching. It will change how you talk to grieving kids. It might change how you see your own grief too.

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EPISODE ➡️ https://www.outofpatients.com/meet-my-grief-notes-from-an-orphaned-teen/

LEXI ON IG ➡️ https://www.instagram.com/meet.my.grief/