Episode 10: Comfort in the Written Word
There is just something so close and intimate about characters and books, understanding what you're going through, you feel like they're there for you.
Grief is at an unprecedented level during Covid-19 and yet we are losing the normal, social ways we grieve. What are some tools we can use to process our grief? Charlotte Fox Weber and I talk about grief and bibliotherapy as an approach to processing grief during the age of Covid-19.
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Charlotte and I discuss:
Her work with the School of Life and bibliotherapy
The value of reading and re-reading during grief
Our go-tos for authors and literature
Additional Resources:
Harvard Business Review - “That Discomfort You’re Feeling is Grief” by Scott Berinato
Staring at the Sun by Irvin Yalom
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
Sheryl Sandberg’s Facebook post
As I Ebb'd with the Ocean of Life by Walt Whitman
Elizabeth Gilbert - excerpt from a Ted Interview podcast episode on grief
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