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.

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

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Additional Resources:

• The School of Life

• Charlotte Fox Weber’s Bio

• Alain de Botton

• 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

• The Complete Stories of Truman Capote

• Dorothy Parker

• Anne Lamott

• W.B. Yeats

• Elizabeth Gilbert - excerpt from a Ted Interview podcast episode on grief

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