252. Born to Belong: Grieving What Should Have Been There From the Start

February 25, 2026

What if the loss you're carrying doesn't have a name — no death, no disaster, just a quiet, persistent ache that something was always missing? In this episode of Joy Lab, we'll look at Gate Four of our grief series: What We Expected But Did Not Receive. Drawing from Francis Weller's The Wild Edge of Sorrow, we'll explore the grief that comes from never being fully welcomed, seen, or celebrated for exactly who you are — a loss so subtle it often masquerades as personal failure. This episode offers a deeply compassionate and scientifically grounded look at why so many of us feel vaguely unfulfilled and how we can actually do something about it. Spoiler: it starts with grieving what you were owed.

This episode is part of a 10-part series on grief. You can jump in here and circle back to Episode 248 when you're ready.

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Key moments:

[00:00:00] — Welcome & Series Context Henry and Aimee welcome listeners back to the Gates of Grief series within Joy Lab's Element of Savoring. Brief orientation for new listeners — no need to start at the beginning, though Episode 248 is waiting for you when you're ready.

[00:00:45] — Introducing Gate Four: What We Expected But Did Not Receive Unlike the more obvious losses of Gate One (everything we love, we will lose), this gate is about foundational things that should have been present but weren't. Francis Weller describes these as "things we may never realize we have lost because we weren't born into a village with full, joyous welcome of our gifts."

[00:02:00] — Love Is Not the Same as Welcome Aimee makes a critical and compassionate distinction: love and welcome are not the same thing. True welcome says: you belong here exactly as you are. You don't have to earn your place. You don't have to be anything other than yourself. When that welcome is missing, it creates what Weller calls a diminished experience of who we are.

[00:03:00] — Longing to Belong and Longing to Be Longed For At the core of this gate is the deeply human drive for acceptance, connection, and support — not just nice-to-haves, but wired-in survival needs. When those aren't met, we carry unconscious disappointment, feelings of loneliness, and a persistent longing to belong.

[00:03:30] — Attachment Theory: Why This Gate Matters So Much Henry introduces attachment theory to help explain why this grief runs so deep. All primates are hardwired to form bonds with caregivers — not just for food and shelter, but for something far more nuanced: attunement. Attunement means being truly seen for who you are, not who your caregiver needs you to be.

[00:04:00] — Secure vs. Insecure Attachment When attuned care is consistent, we develop secure attachment: the world is safe, we matter, we can trust our experience. When it's inconsistent or absent, we adapt — we learn to be vigilant, to perform, to hide the parts of ourselves that don't meet approval. We learn, in short, that love is conditional.

[00:05:00] — It's Not About Blame — It's About Understanding the Cost Henry gently reframes this gate away from blame. Parents can love deeply and still miss attunement — distracted by their own pain, their work, their unmet needs. The point isn't to assign fault but to understand what was missing and what it cost us. Because when foundational welcome is absent, it doesn't just disappear — we carry it forward as a vague sense that something is off, that we're not quite enough.

[00:06:00] — The Invisible Grief Aimee highlights one of the most disorienting features of this gate: you might not even realize you're grieving. Unlike losing someone to death — where the loss has a clear object, others can see it, sympathy cards arrive — this grief is diffuse and unnamed. You feel vaguely unfulfilled, like you're always waiting for something just out of reach.

[00:06:30] — Connection to Savoring If you're carrying unconscious grief, a sense that something's missing that you can't quite name — it's hard to savor, to land fully in your life. This gate directly challenges our Element of Joy: savoring becomes difficult when unmet belonging is quietly running in the background.

[00:07:00] — When We Misread the Grief as Personal Failure Instead of naming this grief, many of us blame ourselves: we're a slacker, languishing, too sensitive, suffering from imposter syndrome — all framings that locate the problem inside us. But this gate insists: you are enough exactly as you are, and when that is not honored, that is the loss. The wound is the lack of welcome, not a deficiency in you.

[00:07:30] — Common Responses: Loneliness, Perfectionism, Shapeshifting Aimee names the predictable patterns we fall into when this grief goes unaddressed: closing up and feeling chronically lonely, chasing perfectionism or achievement to prove worthiness, or shapeshifting and masking to please others.

[00:08:00] — Belonging Actually Makes Us Better People A notable aside: creating a culture of acceptance and genuine belonging doesn't produce selfish, immoral people — it produces prosocial people. Research shows that when folks feel like they belong, they help others belong too. Doesn't that sound good right now?

[00:08:30] — This Gate Requires Cultivating Belonging You can't go back and change your childhood. But you can create new experiences in the present. This gate calls us to find or create the welcome and belonging we needed and still need.

[00:09:00] — Corrective Relational Experiences Henry picks up the thread: in attachment theory, corrective relational experiences are experiences that give us what we needed but didn't get the first time around. And here's the genuinely good news — it is never too late. This can happen at any age. When we find relationships — therapists, partners, friends, communities — where we are truly seen and accepted, it begins to rewire those old patterns. The nervous system finally gets the message: oh, this is what it feels like to be safe, to belong.

[00:10:00] — Emotional Backdraft: Why Healing Can Feel Worse Before It Feels Better Here's the paradox: we often resist corrective experiences when they show up because unconditional acceptance feels uncomfortable when we're not used to it. Henry names this as Emotional Backdraft — when we finally let our guard down, all the old feelings come flooding in and things can feel significantly worse before healing takes hold. But it is part of the healing. If the work feels uncomfortable, awkward, or even painful — take it as a positive sign. Something real is happening.

[00:11:30] — Practice One: Identify What You Needed But Didn't Receive Aimee offers a compassionate journaling and reflection practice with three core questions:

When I was a child, what did I long for?
What kind of welcome or support was missing?
What did I need that I didn't get?

As you reflect, let yourself grieve. These are losses. Name them and bless them on their way so they don't hold you captive.

[00:12:00] — Aimee's Personal Story: The Mission Trip and the Dogs Aimee shares a personal example from a childhood mission trip, where a leader told her she needed to care about people more than she cared about the dogs she was grieving for. It was a small moment that sent a big message: your way of caring is wrong. Years later, she can name it: that was bad advice, and that diminishment of her natural empathy was a real loss worth grieving.

[00:13:30] — Grieving for Those Who Couldn't Give It Aimee offers a compassionate reframe: in nearly every case, the people who failed to welcome you fully didn't have it to give. They likely carried the same ache. This is not a blame exercise — it's a grieving practice. And it can be emotionally intense, so give yourself care, support, and permission to do it in bits.

[00:14:30] — Practice Two: Internal Family Systems (IFS) and Self Energy Henry introduces IFS as a practical tool for this gate. The practice: access self energy — the wise, compassionate observing core that exists in all of us — and from that place, turn toward the parts of yourself that carry these old wounds with genuine curiosity, not a fixing agenda. Ask: What does this part of me need right now? Then listen. Not for what you think you should need — for what actually comes up.

That younger part might need to hear:

I'm here now. I'm not going anywhere.
You didn't do anything wrong. You deserve better.
Or simply to be held in your awareness without anything being fixed.

[00:16:00] — Bring It Into Relationship This is important: you do need to bring it into relationship with others. Not because you're broken, but because we are wired for connection. That's how we heal — in relationship. Find your people. The ones who can hold space for all of you, including the parts that didn't get what they needed. And when you find them — stay.

[00:17:00] — Practice Letting Yourself Be Seen Practice staying. Practice believing — even just a little — that you truly do belong. And if you feel hesitancy or awkwardness when accepting welcome, give yourself credit. That's not failure — that's Emotional Backdraft, which means you're opening up. Something is moving through you. That is a very good sign.

[00:17:30] — Brené Brown on Leaning Into Being Seen Dr. Brené Brown's work gets a nod here: "lean into the discomfort of being truly seen." As we savor and stay and savor again, we build a new story of acceptance and belonging — and that opens the gate to so much more. More love. More connection. More joy.

[00:18:00] — What's Next: Gate Five — Ancestral Grief Next episode, Aimee and Henry explore the pain we carry from those who came before us and how to tend to generational sorrow.

[00:19:00] — Closing Quote: Mirabai Starr "Something magical happens when we bear witness to each other in grief. Something alchemical. It transmutes the lead of our devastation into the gold of connection. Our own compassion is activated. Our souls are soothed. The narrow circle of our private pain expands and we recognize that we belong to each other. We take our rightful place in the web of interbeing and find refuge." — Mirabai Starr

Sources and Notes for this full grief series:

Joy Lab Program: Take the next leap in your wellbeing journey with step-by-step practices to help you build and maintain the elements of joy in your life.
Grief Series:
- Why We're Doing a 10-Part Series on Grief (And Why You Need It) [part 1, ep 248]
- Everything We Love, We Will Lose: Navigating the First Gate of Grief
  [part 2, ep 249]
- Welcoming Back the Parts of You That Have Not Known Love [part 3, ep 250]
- Why You Can't Escape the Sorrows of the World (and why that's a good thing) [part 4, ep 251]
Imposter phenomenon series:
- Imposter Syndrome is a Myth (ep. 175)
- What Imposter Syndrome Really Is (ep. 176)
Backdraft: When Being Good to Yourself Feels Bad (ep. 29)
Wild Edge of Sorrow by Francis Weller
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Please see our terms for more information.

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Episode Transcript

252. Born to Belong: Grieving What Should Have Been There From the Start
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Henry: Hello, I am Henry Emmons and welcome back to Joy Lab.

Aimee Prasek: And I am Aimee Prasek. We are in our Element of Savoring and we are in our series on the Gates of Grief, inspired mainly from Francis Weller's Gates of Grief. And today we're looking through the Fourth Gate proposed by Weller, which is what we expected but did not receive. If you're here for the first time,

just wanna note, no need to go back to start at the beginning of the series right now, stay here and then you can head back to 248 where the series starts, later. So this gate, What We Expected but Did Not Receive. This is kind of a subtle gate, maybe. It's not about obvious losses, it's about the things that should have been there but weren't.

And by should have, kind of [00:01:00] referring to these very foundational expectations that were not received. So Francis Weller writes about these things, describes them, as "things we may never realize we have lost because we weren't born into a village with full, joyous welcome of our gifts."

Henry: That, that is true.

Aimee Prasek: I want to be born in that world. We can create that world. So yeah, how many of us actually receive that? How many of us grow through this world and feel truly celebrated for exactly who we are? I don't know how common that is. I don't think it's impossible. I think it's something we have to create,

clearly. I'm not talking about as well, I just wanna note, like parents who don't love their kids. Most parents love their kids deeply, but love is not always the same as welcome. Yeah. Especially the kind of welcome [00:02:00] that says you belong here exactly as you are. You don't have to earn your place. You don't have to be anything other than yourself.

Instead, most of us learned we had to perform to belong, be good, we had to be successful, we had to be less sensitive. And that creates what Weller calls a diminished experience of who we are. And it's the grief of this gate because wedo expect to be welcomed and loved for who we are.

It's a fair expectation because that's who we are, and we have a drive for acceptance, connection, for support because those things are associated with our individual and collective survival. But if we weren't given that, if we aren't given that, then we aren't receiving something that is really foundational and we aren't showing up fully.

We're showing up likely, you know, as, as careful, as strategic. And so this gate really includes unconscious [00:03:00] disappointment, also feelings of loneliness and connection, and at the core and, as Weller notes, it's our, our longing to belong and longing to longed for.

Henry: I think it might help to talk for a moment about attachment theory 'cause I think it may explain partly why this gate matters so much.

Aimee Prasek: Yeah.

Henry: in attachment theory, we learned that babies, actually all primates, are hardwired to form bonds with their caregivers. It's not optional. It's about survival. And it's not just food and shelter we're looking for.

We're looking for something much more nuanced, that's often called attunement. We need someone who sees us, who really sees us, sees who we are, not who they need us to be. And when that happens, when we receive [00:04:00] consistent attuned care, we develop what's called secure attachment. We learn that the world is essentially a safe place, that we matter, that we can trust our own experience. But when it doesn't happen, or if it's inconsistent, then we adapt. We learn to be vigilant. To perform, maybe, to hide parts of ourself that don't quite meet with whatever the caregiver wants us to be. And so we learned that love is conditional.

Aimee Prasek: Right.

Henry: We think we have to try harder to be seen, or maybe we just give up and act like we don't even care. But of course, we do still care. I, I agree with what you said, Aimee, that I think most parents do love their children, but love and attunement are not the same thing. Either you can love [00:05:00] someone and still not really see them for who they are. So maybe the parents are simply distracted by their own pain, their, their work, their unmet needs, or maybe they just don't understand what children needs.

I don't know. But really it's not about fighting or assigning blame. It's about understanding what was missing and what the cost of that was to us. Because if we don't receive that foundational welcome, that unconditional belonging, it doesn't just disappear. We, we carry it forward with us. So we live with this vague sense that something is off.

That somehow I'm not quite enough.

Aimee Prasek: Yes. Thank you for bringing up attunement too. It's, I think it's really important to see the differences between love, welcoming, attunement. We [00:06:00] wanna be seen, really seen and welcome and loved and accepted. And you noted as well the vagueness. I think that's important. This grief is so often kind of invisible with death or you know, grief after somebody dies.

It's just like a clear object of

Henry: Mm-hmm.

Aimee Prasek: And others can see it too. They name it. You get sympathy cards about it.

But with this gate, you might not even realize you're grieving. And you don't, you don't get those sympathy cards. It's hard for others to see it unless you name it for them and explain it.

So you kind of feel vaguely unfulfilled in some ways. Like you're always waiting for something that that never comes. And this does connect, quite well, I think to our Element of Joy for February's Savoring because if you're carrying this unconscious grief, the sense, sense that something's missing.

Something that you really can't name, but you know is there, then [00:07:00] it's hard to savor and kind of land fully in your life. And I think this is a really common gate, but we don't name it because it's also hard to accept that we were owed these things and we didn't get them. That's a loss.

And so sometimes we try to name it by blaming ourselves with explanations like we're a slacker or languishing or being too sensitive or having imposter syndrome, all of which suggests that what's missing is our fault. Like we're not passionate enough, we're not strong enough, we're not confident enough, but that's not the case with this gate. This gate acknowledges that we are enough just as we are, and when that is not honored, there is a loss. But instead of attending to this, it's also common to close up and feel really lonely because we feel like we can't be who we are. Or like you noted, we try to fix it with perfectionism, or a kind of obsessive [00:08:00] drive to achieve, to be better, to prove ourselves worthy. Or we shapeshift, put masks on to please others.

And I just gotta add this, just as an aside, maybe it's not that if we accept everyone for who they are that we'll have a bunch of selfish, destructive, immoral jerks. The truth is that a sense of belonging, of acceptance, of seeing one another creates more prosocial behaviors. So when folks feel like they belong, they help others belong too.

Doesn't that sound really good right now?

Henry: Mm-hmm.

Aimee Prasek: And so this gate requires us to cultivate belonging, to not isolate, to find or create the welcome and belonging we needed and, and still need. Because you, you can't go back and change your childhood, but you can create new experiences in the present.

Henry: Let me pick up on something [00:09:00] you said, Aimee, that you, you can't heal this in isolation. So, you know, in, in attachment theory they talk about corrective relational experiences. So it's experiences that give us what we needed but didn't get the first time around. So it is never too late for this. This is the really the good news.

It can happen at any age.

Aimee Prasek: Yeah.

Henry: When we find relationships, whether it's a therapist, a partner, friend, a community where we are truly seen and accepted, it starts to rewire those old patterns. It's like the nervous system finally gets the message, oh, this is what it feels like to be safe, to be welcome, to belong. But here's what I've noticed in my own life, and also in working with people for years now, that we often resist these corrective [00:10:00] experiences when they show up because receiving that kind of love and unconditional acceptance can feel uncomfortable if if we're not used to it.

Aimee Prasek: Yep.

Henry: It seems paradoxical, but I think it's true and it just doesn't match our internal script so we can push it away or tell ourselves this cannot be real.

And there's a term for this, it's called Emotional Backdraft. It's, it's when we finally let our guard down and all these old feelings come flooding in, and it can just feel really a lot worse for a while before the healing really starts to take hold, but it's part of the healing. So we're not just learning to receive welcome, we're also grieving the welcome that we didn't receive earlier. So if you're doing this work and it feels kind of uncomfortable or [00:11:00] awkward, maybe even painful, take that as a positive sign. I think it just means something real is happening. And it means you're allowing yourself to be touched by something that you've needed for a very long time.

Aimee Prasek: We did a, episode on Emotional Backdraft. I'll put that in the show notes. Such an important note there, Henry. Thank you. Let's, let's talk about some practices for this gate. I think a first helpful practice is to identify, with a lot of compassion, what you needed but didn't receive.

You might reflect or journal, about questions like;

When I was a child, what did I long for?

What kind of welcome or support was missing?

What did I need that I didn't get?

And as you reflect or write, let yourself grieve. These are losses. Your [00:12:00] system needs to kind of name them and bless them on their way so that they don't hold you captive.

I'll give an example. I was doing this and the experience that rose up for me, I was kind of surprised by. I was on a mission trip, I don't know, long ago, and, we were, like driving through a community with a lot of poverty and I noticed the dogs roaming around and the first thing I said was, I feel so sad for those dogs.

I think I was eight or nine, I don't know. And the person next to me, one of the leaders, said, you need to care about the people more than you care about the dogs.

Henry: Hmm.

Aimee Prasek: And I just really hit me because I do have just like a very deep sense of grief and empathy for [00:13:00] animals.

It's just part of my wiring as it is for everyone, and it's what I noticed at that time. But what I took from that message was that your caring needs to be prescriptive or it, it needs to be, in this ordered fashion or it needs to follow in this rule set.

And it felt really good too, and y'all, if you've listened to the podcast, you know, some of my history with the church being kicked out and stuff. So I've got, I've got some, some other stuff going on there, but it made me realize that no, that was bad advice. That was, that was unhelpful to diminish my sense of caring.

And couldn't we include all of those creatures in that circle of care? Yes, we could. So I really appreciate just this exercise as an opportunity to bring up a little bit of stuff that maybe you hadn't thought about in a while, but that reaffirms, that affirms, that reclaims your sense of caring and compassion and love, [00:14:00] like those things that are part of you that maybe as a kid you were given a finger about.

I think it can be really powerful. And maybe I'll note as well, grieve for the folks who didn't offer you those things, because in nearly a hundred percent of the cases, the people who failed you here didn't have it either. They didn't have the sense of belonging or that support or that need fulfilled, either. They didn't have any of it to give. So that loss or that ache that you have felt or feel now, they probably had the same one. So this isn't a blaming exercise. It is a grieving practice, and this can be hard work, it can be emotionally intense, so give yourself a lot of care and the supports that you need, back off when it's too much. You can do this in bits.

Henry: Yeah. Yeah. I think too that it, it really helps to turn toward those younger parts of yourself with real [00:15:00] compassion.

And I think this is another place where Internal Family Systems can really be helpful. We've, we've talked about this recently, and I, I think in IFS, we learned to access what's called self energy, and that's the wise, compassionate core that exists in all of us.

I think it's what in, in mindfulness is often referred to as the observing self. And so from that place, we can turn toward the parts of ourself that carry these old wounds, and we can ask them questions, not with a anxious, fixing agenda, but with genuine curiosity. Real questions. So you might ask, what does this part of me need right now?

And then, listen, just really listen. Not For what you think you should need, but for what actually comes up. [00:16:00] And so maybe that younger part just needs to hear, I'm here now. I'm not going anywhere. Or maybe you didn't do anything wrong. You deserve better. Or maybe it just needs to be held for a while in your awareness without trying to fix a thing. So this isn't about reparenting in some sort forced or artificial way. It's just offering yourself the sort of presence you would offer to anybody that you truly cared about. Simple, steady, no agenda. And then this is important, I think, you do need to bring it into relationship with others. Not because you're broken or you need to be fixed, but because like we've been saying, we are so wired for connection.

That's how we heal. We heal in relationship. So find your people, the ones that can hold [00:17:00] space for all of you, including the parts that didn't get what they needed. And when you find them, stay.

Stay with them. Practice letting yourself be seen. Practice believing even if it's just a little bit, that you truly do belong.

Aimee Prasek: Yeah, practice staying. We, we talked a lot about this last episode too, finding those people, So head back there for more resources. But back to Emotional Backdraft for just a moment and your note of staying again, Henry. 'Cause again, it might be surprising that you feel hesitant to stay and savor the welcome from these spaces and, and connections. If you feel that hesitancy, that awkwardness then give yourself credit. I think 'cause it's totally normal and it, it's also a sign that you're opening up, I think like you're, you've opened up to take in [00:18:00] some of that, even if it's like, "Oh God, how do I process this?" It's, it's in you. It's, it's, it's making its way through you. So that's like a super good sign.

Dr. Brené Brown talks about this in her work and encourages us to lean into the discomfort of being truly seen. So as we continue to lean in and savor and stay and savor again, we can create a new story of acceptance and our belonging, and that opens up so much more in our lives. I, I think that's the common story, in these gates too, we let grief in, in these gates,

we also open the gate to so much more in our lives, more love, more connections, more joy. Again, as maybe we've said in previous episodes, it's surprising what grief can offer us when we work with it. Not just letting go of a loss, but it creates some ground for something more. So next week we'll enter

the fifth gate, ancestral grief. [00:19:00] We'll explore the pain we carry from, those who came before us, and how we can tend to that kind of generational sorrow. To close us today, I wanna share some wisdom from Mirabai Starr. Here's what she wrote:

"Something magical happens when we bear witness to each other in grief. Something alchemical. It transmutes the lead of our devastation into the gold of connection. Our own compassion is activated. Our souls are soothed. The narrow circle of our private pain expands and we recognize that we belong to each other. We take our rightful place in the web of inter being and find refuge."

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252. Born to Belong: Grieving What Should Have Been There From the Start

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