Sophia Dorton Caudle, PhD

What if the ache you carry isn’t from something recent, but from something ancient? A grief that began before you had words for loss?In this episode of And How Does That Make You Feel?™, I sit down with Dr. Sophia Caudle, founder of The Original Grief, a healing framework that helps us understand & uncover the first loss that shaped how we love, cope, and connect.In her Original Grief Intensives and workshop, Dr. Caudle guides clients into the deeper layers of healing, working not with the kind of grief that follows death, but the grief that comes from emotional neglect, unmet needs, and early attachment wounds. She teaches that every unspoken sadness or unmet need carries a map back to our original loss, and that by naming these wounds, we can begin to feel what we once had suppressed.Together, we explore how this grief shows up in our bodies and relationships, how it fuels our survival skills of codependency, self-protection, perfectionism, or emotional shutdown, and how reparenting ourselves can transform pain into presence. Dr. Caudle reminds us that healing isn’t about fixing what’s broken, but feeling what’s been buried.This conversation invites us to be courageous and to turn toward the tender places within us waiting to be acknowledged. To bring our self-awareness forward, to feel, and to let that feeling become the beginning of freedom.This episode is for anyone who’s ever carried sadness they couldn’t name.