The Long Arc of Loss with NYT Best Selling Author Hope Edelman
Release Date: 02/01/2021
Mental Health in the Military: Losing Your Son to Suicide One Year After Coming Home (with Dean Lambert, The Love Always Project)
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Dean Lambert leads The Love Always Project, created to promote discussion about end-of-life issues, provide expert information and encourage people to preplan and pay for their funeral as the ultimate act of love for those they will leave behind. Dean is a military brat who moved 18 times in 17 years. Today we discuss the loss of Dean's son, Adam. Adam was a USMC Corporal who served in Afghanistan and died by suicide a year after coming home at age 24. Dean's home base was Flushing, Queens, where both of his parents grew up on the same block. He now live in Des Moines,...
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Dating (and Breaking Up) in LA with Comedian Meryl Klemow (Campfire Sht Show)
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Today my good friend Meryl is interviewing me. She is an established comedian, not to mention one of my funniest friends. We discuss the differences between our breakups, dating in LA, and we then deep-dive on almost every date I've been on in the past year. So to tie this into grief, we are grieving our past romantic selves. Close enough! Part 1 gives the context, and Part 2 gives the tea. YODO! - Meryl Klemow is a comedian, writer and podcaster based in Burbank, CA. She performs stand-up comedy all over Southern California at venues such as The Comedy Store, The Improv, Flapper's and Burbank...
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What To Say To Grievers Around the Holidays with Podcaster Danielle Hill
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Daniélle Hill is a Social Media Manager for small businesses and creatives. She help business owners simplify their video marketing so that they can get lead clients and customers and have an amazing time online. She is also a podcaster that has #reallife heart to hearts laughter and guest interviews all centered around the importance of connection and normalizing real life and the human experience. For fun, she loves to podcast, dance, explore her beautiful city of Chicago. Today we discuss the loss of her mother Darlene, who passed away by a pulmonary embolism the day after...
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Get Your Money Together in 2024 | Top 3 Credit Card Recs To Save $ & Travel for Free
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It's a new year. It's a new you. Or is the same you? Girl, let's get your money together. I have 3 credit cards that I'm obsessed with - and I will share them here! Plus a little bit of dating tea... Bilt Mastercard Referral Link: Amex Referral Link: https://americanexpress.com/en-us/referral/CHELScmRvc?XLINK=MYCP - Would you like to nominate a guest? Have feedback or questions? Say hi: @_ChelsWhoElse_ | @DaughtersOfSickParents Get involved: [email protected] Comedy: www.ChelsWhoElse.com
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How Grief Shapes Poetry | Losing Your Brother in a Car Accident & Mom to Breast Cancer with Therapist Mackenzie Studebaker
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Today we explore Mackenzie's poetry, informed by their own losses. Their brother was killed in a car accident at 19 and their mom died 5 years later from breast cancer. Mackenzie is an associate marriage and family therapist, certified iRest Yoga Nidra meditation teacher and trauma informed yoga teacher. They specialize in working with grief and loss, having served the bereavement department of Pathways Hospice as a grief counselor. Mackenzie also specializes in LGBTQ+ issues, lifecycles and transitions, and has a particular affinity and skill for working with teens and young adults....
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Re-Share: My Parents' Diseases: Growing Up Around ALS & Breast Cancer
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▶▶ Welcome back to Dying Of Laughter! In this episode, I'm re-sharing the first episode I ever launched... This is the story of my parents getting sick: my dad's journey with ALS and my mom's journey with breast cancer. Happy holidays! Okay, that ended a little too jolly. If you're feeling holly this year, go off; if you're feeling unhinged or unwell this year, go off. You can be holly, jolly, or nolly (not jolly) and I'd support any and of all of it. YODO, you only die once! See (hear?) you in 2024. Cheers DOLlies. I really resonate with the quote: "Grief is love with...
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Death, Dogs & Deals - My Holiday Plans (and Recent Blocks)
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The holidays can bring all the feels. Join me for a quick hang discussing death, dogs, and deals. And yes, that does rhyme and yes, I care that you noticed. Deals: Lyft/Amazon: While supplies last, you can earn a $15 Amazon promotional credit when you spend $100 on one or more Lyft gift cards purchased through Amazon when you use code "LYFT" at checkout. You can receive a $25 Amazon promotional credit when you spend $250 on one or more Airbnb gift cards through Amazon when you use code "AIRBNB" at checkout. You can only use this promotion onces; your promotional credit will automatically apply...
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No Crying in Cooking: Where Food & Body Image Meets Grief with Skylar Harrison
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Today we are chatting with food writer & podcaster, Skylar Harrison. We talk about her dad dying of throat and tongue cancer in 2001, what it's like losing at parent at age 11, and how her food writing intersects with grief. Skylar runs a grief and mental health instagram called No Crying In Cooking covering grief, recovery, and self-compassion. Check out her podcast, Bob's Credits (@bobcredits on IG and Twitter) and her IG @nocryingincooking. Note: Skylar's opinions are her own; she is not a therapist or a dietitian so please reach out for professional help if you need support. -...
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Life Update: My Breakup, My Dog, My New Life
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Where Have I Been...All My Life? (Sung to the tune of Rihanna.) On today's episode of Dying of Laughter, we explore where I have been for the past year. (Do you we love how we're saying we, as if it's not like... just me?) Last year I became single, birthed a dog, and started a new life! This season we will explore themes such as American funeral customs, the intersection of grief & body image/food, how to hold spaces for grieving friends, finding the funny in your grief, and more. #YODO... you only die once! - Are you experiencing grief or are you anticipating grief? Share your story with...
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Hungry for Life & Losing Your Dad to Leukemia with Zeahlot Lopez (Psychotherapist, LMFT, LPCC & Business Coach)
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Zeahlot Lopez an international speaker, author, and coach who retired as a psychotherapist after helping thousands of people heal over the years. She then went on to establish and build multiple 7-figure businesses: the most notable being her premiere online coaching program, The Vida System, where she guided hundreds of struggling therapists to scale their practices. Today we discuss the loss of her dad to Leukemia. @zeahlot Zeahlot is from Los Angeles, California. She grew up in a two parent household with my mom dad, and two sisters. Zeahlot is a first gen Mexican - American...
info_outlineHope Edelman has been in the bereavement field for 25+ years. She was 17 when she lost her mom to breast cancer & 40 when her father died, which inspired her to offer grief education and support. Hope’s first book, Motherless Daughters, was a #1 New York Times bestseller and appeared on multiple bestseller lists worldwide. Her most recent book, The AfterGrief, offers an innovative new language for discussing the long arc of loss. Hope has also published articles in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Real Simple, Parade, and CNN.com.