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Trauma therapist, writer and podcast host Meghan, found herself on the receiving end of the same treatments she used with her own clients after the death of both her parents within two years of each other. Meghan hosts a weekly discussion with guests who carry personal loss, professional expertise, and a belief that talking about grief and loss helps provide needed support in a world that finds the topic all kinds of awkward.
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Thursday Jul 01, 2021
Thursday Jul 01, 2021
In this episode Meghan talks with Episcopal priest and author Liz Tichenor about the death of her son Fritz at only 40 days old as well as the legacy of her mother's suicide. Liz reflects how running, community, family and eventually her religion helped to support her through her loss and find her way back to life.
Tuesday Jun 29, 2021
Tuesday Jun 29, 2021
20 years after her mother's death, Author, cancer survivor, mother and wife, Dara Kurtz's found a bag full of letters from her mother and grandmother. A mother to a new baby at the time of her mother's death, Dara's did not truly begin to process the depth of her grief until she began reading and ultimately writing " I Am My Mother's Daughter: Wisdom on Life, Loss and Love, about all she had lost. Listen as Meghan and Dara talk about the truisms of carrying grief and the many ways loss manifests in our lives.
https://crazyperfectlife.com
Thursday Jun 24, 2021
Thursday Jun 24, 2021
Dr. Kathryn Mannix is an expert in Palliative Care and death and dying educator based in the UK. Author of the best selling With the End in Mind and upcoming Listen, Dr. Mannix has revolutionized our understanding of end of life care, and authored guidebooks for those wanting to learn more about death and how the body dies. In this delightful conversation, Dr. Mannix gives Meghan a generous tutorial on how palliative care is most effective, how we have become so unskilled in managing grief, and offers true hope of education and compassion to those grieving. Don't miss this expisode.
Tuesday Jun 22, 2021
Tuesday Jun 22, 2021
Peg Conway is a writer, and energy healer who shares her story of losing her mother at age seven, the protracted grief that didn't really manifest until her 20's after she witnessed a dear friend injured by a car. Peg discusses how reading and writing her own book has helped her come to know her loss better and as well as face the surprising ways that grief shows up even 50 years on.
Saturday Jun 19, 2021
Saturday Jun 19, 2021
In the final episode of our Father's Day Series, Meghan interviews her friend, colleague and podcast co-host Brooke James of the Grief Coach. With more laughter than tears Brooke and Meghan talk anniversaries and counting days, living into loss, and setting boundaries.
Don't miss this one. Brooke is truly something special.
https://www.thegriefcoach.co/about
Thursday Jun 17, 2021
Thursday Jun 17, 2021
Father's Day Special Join Meghan in this special conversation with her long time high school friend, Lindsey Mead Russell, about losing her father-in-law and father within six weeks of each other. Lindsey talks poetry, writing and long months of tears as ways we actively grieve.
Tuesday Jun 15, 2021
Tuesday Jun 15, 2021
Join Meghan as she talks with Orange is the New Black Actress, Alysia Reiner (Fig) about losing her dad over a decade ago, growing in grief, maintaining a relationship with his memory for herself and her daughter and how she celebrates the anniversary of his death. Alysia is so warm and generous with her thoughts and feelings on grief and self care, you will find yourself wanting to listen again.
Tuesday Jun 08, 2021
Tuesday Jun 08, 2021
Join Meghan as she talks books with writer/editor and author of THE HOT ONE: A MEMOIR OF FRIENDSHIP SEX AND MURDER, Carolyn Murnick. Carolyn discusses the gruesome death of her childhood best friend and how writing is a tool to process grief.
https://www.carolynmurnick.com/
Thursday Jun 03, 2021
Thursday Jun 03, 2021
You all are in for such an incredible treat. Poet Tetyana Denford joins Meghan's on Grief is My Side Hustle to discuss Tetyana's ethereal book of poetry "Conversation with Grief." Meghan fan girls big time as she and Tetyana discuss writing, walking in nature and connecting to others as a way to grieve. Join Meghan as she falls in love with this extraordinary poet and her beautiful words.
https://www.instagram.com/tetyanawrites/?hl=en
Sunday May 30, 2021
Sunday May 30, 2021
Holidays can be so painful without your loved one. Join Meghan as she talks with mother, advocate, writer and force of nature Carrie Schmitt about living through the sudden death of her 7 year old son, Jackson, from a rare form of cancer only a short time after his diagnosis. This conversation is full of heart and courage as Carrie helps us think about learning to grieve while still parenting her younger son, what it means to own your story and how to keep writing it.
https://carrieschmitt.com