Today’s podcast is about the subject of grief. We need to talk about grief more. We really do. It is a subject that affects all of us. We need to acknowledge the sadness that grief can bring to us and also the people in our lives. Our society does not hold space for grief. We need to change that.

In other countries when women give birth, they're given time off to bond with their baby and care for the baby. Here it's like chop-chop... Get back to work! The same is true with grief. 

In other cultures and other parts of the world when somebody that is close to you passes, you are honored and given ways to grieve. In our society, you are given a message that goes something like this: You should be over this by now... it’s been a few weeks. My answer to that is a hard no.

If you are someone who has experienced deep grief, this episode is for you and if you’re someone who has never experienced grief, you will experience deep grief in your lifetime, so this episode is for you too.

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