Grief is one of those things that many of us still have no idea how to talk about. Whether we've lost someone or know someone who has lost someone it can be very uncomfortable to know what to share, when & even how to just broach the subject. This struggle is one Cariad Lloyd knows well.
After losing her dad at 15, she says she only really started to understand her grief when she was 34 and pregnant and decided to start her award winning podcast Griefcast. Running since 2016, the podcast has helped a whole host of people to process & verbalize their grief & Cariad's book encompasses some of those lessons.
Cariad is a comedian & author of You Are Not Alone.
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BOOKS
You Are Not Alone
PODCASTS
Griefcast
The Grief Gang
Good Mourning
TIMESTAMPS
00:00:00 - Intro
00:01:30 - What is the grief club?
00:02:30 - Why did Cariad start Griefcast in 2016?
00:06:00 - What enabled Cariad to start to grieve?
00:08:30 - Myths about grief
00:10:30 - Victorian time limits on grief
00:12:24 - What is grief?
00:14:20 - The physical sensations of grief
00:16:20 - How processing grief changed Cariad
00:18:19 - Grief never goes away & that's okay
00:24:09 - Why the 5 stages of grief are complete BS
00:30:30 - Dual process theory
00:34:00 - Why we should all be talking about death more
00:38:00 - What to say & do for someone who's grieving
00:44:05 - The best thing to do / say if an acquaintance loses someone