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Ep. 463 “So Sorry for Your Loss:” Learning to Live with Grief with Dina Gachman
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Learn about a grief book that combines personal experience with expert advice and a touch of humor.
My guest Dina Gachman is a Pulitzer Center grantee, an award-winning journalist, and a frequent contributor to the New York Times, Texas Monthly, Vox, and more. She wrote her second book So Sorry for Your Loss: How I Learned to Live with Grief and Other Grave Concerns after experiencing two deaths in her family and needing to process and learn more about her own grief. Learn more at her website:
This episode includes:
- What inspired Dina to write this book
- Choosing the right therapist for grief counseling
- Her family’s experience with hospice and what she wishes she had known
- Why they struggled with accepting palliative care earlier in the course of her mother’s illness
- “Opening the box” as a tool for initiating end-of-life conversations
- How patient and family stories can help us make productive changes in end-of-life care
- Tips for bringing food to a grieving friend (and why a bucket of chicken is worth considering)
- Ambiguous loss in the face of alcohol and substance abuse
- Responses to the book
Links mentioned in this episode:
- My interview on When You Die Podcast
- Get EOLU Podcast Merch here
- Conversations on Death with ChatGPT – Audiobook here; Print Book here
- Leave me a message by email: kwyattmd@comcast.net, Twitter, Facebook or Instagram
- Support your local bookstore by buying my books on Bookshop and Indiebound: 7 Lessons for Living from the Dying and The Journey from Ego to Soul
- Subscribe to this podcast on Apple, Google, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Stitcher Radio
- Check out the Series I’ve recorded in the past here
- Join the team at Patreon.com/eolu and receive free gifts like the “Mind if we talk about death?” mini-poster or Love Your Life sticker or coffee mug. PLUS get our regular bonuses: the monthly EOL News Update, occasional movie reviews from 2 Doctors and a Movie, and automatic access to A Year of Reading Dangerously!
- Buy me a coffee
- Donate on Paypal
If you enjoy this content please share it with others and consider leaving a review on iTunes. Thanks again to all supporters on my page at Patreon.com/eolu, especially my newest donor Catherine Noble Heart . Also thank you to everyone who has donated through Paypal or bought me a coffee! Your contributions make all the difference and ensure this podcast stays ad-free.
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Manage episode 428975691 series 92743
Learn about a grief book that combines personal experience with expert advice and a touch of humor.
My guest Dina Gachman is a Pulitzer Center grantee, an award-winning journalist, and a frequent contributor to the New York Times, Texas Monthly, Vox, and more. She wrote her second book So Sorry for Your Loss: How I Learned to Live with Grief and Other Grave Concerns after experiencing two deaths in her family and needing to process and learn more about her own grief. Learn more at her website:
This episode includes:
- What inspired Dina to write this book
- Choosing the right therapist for grief counseling
- Her family’s experience with hospice and what she wishes she had known
- Why they struggled with accepting palliative care earlier in the course of her mother’s illness
- “Opening the box” as a tool for initiating end-of-life conversations
- How patient and family stories can help us make productive changes in end-of-life care
- Tips for bringing food to a grieving friend (and why a bucket of chicken is worth considering)
- Ambiguous loss in the face of alcohol and substance abuse
- Responses to the book
Links mentioned in this episode:
- My interview on When You Die Podcast
- Get EOLU Podcast Merch here
- Conversations on Death with ChatGPT – Audiobook here; Print Book here
- Leave me a message by email: kwyattmd@comcast.net, Twitter, Facebook or Instagram
- Support your local bookstore by buying my books on Bookshop and Indiebound: 7 Lessons for Living from the Dying and The Journey from Ego to Soul
- Subscribe to this podcast on Apple, Google, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Stitcher Radio
- Check out the Series I’ve recorded in the past here
- Join the team at Patreon.com/eolu and receive free gifts like the “Mind if we talk about death?” mini-poster or Love Your Life sticker or coffee mug. PLUS get our regular bonuses: the monthly EOL News Update, occasional movie reviews from 2 Doctors and a Movie, and automatic access to A Year of Reading Dangerously!
- Buy me a coffee
- Donate on Paypal
If you enjoy this content please share it with others and consider leaving a review on iTunes. Thanks again to all supporters on my page at Patreon.com/eolu, especially my newest donor Catherine Noble Heart . Also thank you to everyone who has donated through Paypal or bought me a coffee! Your contributions make all the difference and ensure this podcast stays ad-free.
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