I am excited to share another creative project I’ve been working on- Keep Grief Weird Podcast with my dear friend MC McDonald, PhD (she’s also on Substack, follow her!)
Look, Mom! The cover art I made for our show is us as little 80s kids!
In our podcast, we are exploring the many facets of grief and how weird it can be to live with loss and still feel connected to the ones who are gone. What’s the difference between active and passive grief? What’s a grief wave? How can you take care of yourself when you’re in one? How do you honor a loved one who is no longer with us? How do you keep hope and joy alive when you’re in the depths of grief? Whew! We are just scratching the surface of SO. MANY. THINGS. to uncover as we share our similarities and differences through grief, together.
Being part of the Dead Mom’s Club is what instantly connected us as friends. It’s both a terrible and comforting club to be in- which is another reason why grief is weird. You know what else we have in common? We both lost our parents on major holidays. (00/10 do not recommend)
Here’s the start of our grief journeys, so you can get to know us!
On episode #1, I tell you about my grief story of losing my Mom, Bev on Thanksgiving and how hashtag #keepgriefweird came to be.
On episode #2, MC shares her grief origin story of her losing her father, Bob on Christmas and her mother, Suzanne all within a year at the tender age of 24. MC also lost her first love in high school- which we’ll talk about in later episodes. The wild part of all of this is that MC was deep into studying grief in college while living without the parents she’d just lost. Grief is tricky like that!
My Mom always used to tell me to:
And I’m following her orders! Our new podcast and The Handwriting Club are both proof that there’s real alchemy to be made in/through/with grief.
We hope that by sharing our grief stories, we can offer our listeners some comfort as we all navigate living with loss in a grief-phobic society. You are definitely not alone. We’re in this together.
If you’d like to support our work, follow us on Substack to get updated episodes and show notes (old family pics here we come!!!!). We will have more offerings in the next year for paid subscribers. YAY!
You can listen to us wherever you listen to podcasts! Just look us up ;)
We also have an Instagram account- @keepgriefweird as well as a hashtag #keepgriefweird if you want to share your grief or read other people’s experiences. They’re incredibly touching, thank you for sharing your stories with us!
I’m super excited to listen. Thank you for making this💝.