Healing Through Grief & Sepsis Awareness

A compassionate blog thumbnail featuring Christina Flach alongside a teal sepsis awareness ribbon with the headline “Healing Through Grief & Sepsis Awareness.” The soft watercolor-inspired background, candle, and floral accents create a peaceful, hopeful design that honors loved ones lost to sepsis while encouraging awareness, healing, and early recognition to help save lives.

Grief is a journey that is unique to everyone — and no one knows that more intimately than Pretty Girl Makeup CEO, NBC California Live beauty expert, and I’m Too Busy Podcast host Christina Flach.

In this powerful 27-minute episode of the Coming Out of the Dark Podcast, Christina is transparent and deeply personal in sharing her own grief journey. From the sudden and devastating loss of her husband Ken Flach — professional tennis player, Olympic Gold Medalist, and Grand Slam Champion — to a sepsis infection in 2018, to other profound personal losses, Christina opens up in a way that is raw, real, and deeply moving.

Grief, Christina shares, doesn’t follow a schedule or a rulebook. It is uniquely yours. But there are ways to navigate it — and Christina has learned them through lived experience, not theory. In this episode she shares the lessons, the mindset shifts, and the practices that have helped her not just survive loss but grow through it.

She also speaks to her ongoing mission as a sepsis awareness advocate, partnering with Sepsis Alliance to share Ken’s story and urge everyone to know the symptoms and seek immediate medical attention. Sepsis is survivable — but only when caught in time.

This is one of the most honest and hopeful conversations Christina has ever had. Listen on Apple Podcasts and Spotify and wherever you get your podcasts.

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