Laugh, Cry, Scream: Life with Grief & Estrangement
Laugh Cry Scream is a raw, honest, and deeply human podcast about life with grief and estrangement. Hosted by Chris Workman, the show dives into the messy, complicated, and often unspoken parts of loss, family pain, healing, and survival. With real conversations, dark humor, hard truths, and zero fake positivity, this podcast creates space for people who are carrying the weight of grief while trying to keep going. Some days you laugh. Some days you cry. Some days you scream. Here, all of it is welcome.
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- StandardSummaries onlyPsychological Limbo - When Your Child Feels Gone
Published May 21, 2026
Christina WorkmanGrief can make you feel like you’re still physically here… while emotionally disappearing piece by piece.In this episode of Laugh, Cry, Scream, Chris talks about the identity loss, emotional exhaustion, numbness, and quiet isolation grieving parents often experience after child loss.Because sometimes grief doesn’t look like crying. Sometimes it looks like: • pulling away from people • forgetting who you used to be • struggling to function normally • feeling emotionally detached from life itselfT
- StandardSummaries onlyGrief Changed Me And I Didn't Even See It Coming
Published May 19, 2026
Christina WorkmanGrief doesn’t just hurt. Sometimes it completely changes who you are.In this episode of Laugh. Cry. Scream., Chris Workman talks about the identity shifts that happen after major loss — the emotional exhaustion, social disconnect, numbness, irritability, and quiet ways grief can make people feel unfamiliar to themselves.Because grief isn’t always obvious. Sometimes it looks like: pulling away from people struggling with everyday conversations feeling emotionally flat losing interest in things yo
- StandardSummaries onlyWhy Estranged Parents Stop Talking About Their Grief
Published May 16, 2026
Christina WorkmanEstranged parents are grieving too. But many stop talking about it because every conversation starts to feel dangerous.In this episode of Laugh, Cry, Scream, Chris Workman talks honestly about the silence many estranged parents fall into after being dismissed, judged, blamed, or emotionally shut down.This conversation explores: why estranged parents start censoring themselves the fear of being labeled “toxic” or “narcissistic” how grief changes when nobody wants to hear your side the emotional e
- StandardSummaries onlyWhat Happened to Me After Grief? The Identity Loss Nobody Talks About
Published May 13, 2026
Christina WorkmanGrief does not just change your life.Sometimes it changes you.In this episode of Laugh, Cry, Scream, Chris Workman talks about the part of grief many people quietly experience but struggle to explain out loud:the identity loss that can happen after profound grief.This conversation explores:• emotional exhaustion• brain fog and overwhelm• feeling disconnected from yourself• relationship changes after loss• loneliness in grief• masking pain while appearing “fine”• why ordinary life suddenly feels
- StandardSummaries onlyWhen Your Adult Child Cuts You Off: The Guilt Loop Nobody Talks About
Published May 8, 2026
Christina WorkmanWhen your adult child walks away, the pain is not just the silence. It is the guilt, the shame, the judgment, and the endless replay of every moment where you wonder what you could have done differently.In this episode of Laugh, Cry, Scream: Life with Grief and Estrangement, Chris Workman and Joe Sassman talk honestly about the guilt and shame loop that so many estranged parents live with. From the 2 AM thoughts that won’t stop, to the pressure of feeling like society has already decided you are
- StandardSummaries onlyEverything Happens for a Reason” & Other Lies: Navigating the Loss of a Child
Published May 5, 2026
Christina WorkmanIn this deeply emotional episode of Laugh, Cry, Scream, Chris and Joe talk about the unimaginable reality of losing a child.They share the phone calls, the final moments, the shock, the numbness, and the memories that never leave. Joe opens up about the final conversation his son had with his own child before his death, and Chris shares the heartbreaking day she lost her son after years of navigating his medical needs.Together, they talk about the things people say after loss, especially phrases
- StandardSummaries onlyMy Parents Had Dementia. Then a Stranger Told Me My Whole Life Was a Lie.
Published Apr 30, 2026
Christina WorkmanCould you handle the truth if your entire foundation was a lie?In this episode of Laugh, Cry, Scream: Life with Grief and Estrangement, hosts Chris Workman and Joe Sassman sit down with Al Isaacs, a man whose life changed with a single, accidental phone call at age 52.As Al was navigating the heavy waters of anticipatory grief—caring for both parents as they battled dementia—a call from his mother’s oncologist dropped a bombshell: Al was adopted. Because of his parents' cognitive decline, the pe
- StandardSummaries onlyWhen Your Child Uses “Boundaries” to Shut You Out
Published Apr 23, 2026
Christina WorkmanWhat happens when the word boundary becomes the end of the relationship instead of the beginning of a real conversation?In this episode of Laugh, Cry, Scream, Chris Workman and Joe Sassman dig into one of the most painful realities of family estrangement: being cut off by an adult child with little to no conversation, often through language that feels scripted, sudden, and final. They talk about the labels parents hear over and over again like toxic, narcissistic, gaslighting, and boundary, and
- StandardSummaries onlyWhat Hurts More: Grief or Estrangement?
Published Apr 16, 2026
Christina WorkmanIn this episode of Laugh, Cry, Scream, we take on a question that hits hard for a lot of people living through loss:What hurts more, grief or estrangement?If you have experienced physical loss, estrangement, or both, you already know this is not a simple comparison. One comes with finality. The other comes with unanswered questions, rejection, silence, hope, and the pain of someone still being alive but no longer being in your life. In this conversation, we talk about:why grief and estrangement
- StandardSummaries onlyEstranged Parent, Grieving Parent: The Pain No One Talks About
Published Apr 12, 2026
Christina WorkmanWhat does it really feel like to be an estranged parent while also carrying deep grief? In the first episode of Laugh, Cry, Scream, Chris Workman and Joe Sassmen share their stories of child loss, estrangement, shame, guilt, and healing. They introduce the heart behind the podcast and share the deeply personal stories that brought them here. They talk about child loss, parental estrangement, guilt, shame, healing, and what it means to keep going when life changes you forever.This conversation co