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Remember the last time you tried to talk about grief and suddenly everyone left the room? Hosted by Jana DeCristofaro and produced by Dougy Center, Grief Out Loud is opening up this often avoided conversation because grief is hard enough without having to go through it alone. We bring you a mix of personal stories, tips for supporting children, teens, and yourself, and interviews with professionals. Platitude and cliché-free, we promise!

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June 25th, 2018
Episode 83

Emotional Hot Spots - Grief & Significant Days

When we are grieving there can be emotional hot spot days throughout the year. Some of these might be known quantities like a birthday or the anniversary of the death or diagnosis. Others are unexpect read more...

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June 7th, 2018
Episode 82

The Before & After Worlds - Grieving A Sudden Death

How do you go from being in one world - the world where your person is alive and washing dishes and folding laundry and calling your name down the hall - to another where this person no longer exists read more...

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May 17th, 2018
Episode 81

Grief In Your 20's - Cynthia Whipple

Over the course of 6 weeks when she was just 24, both of Cynthia Whipple's parents died, leaving her reeling and without a sense of home or family. We talk about what it's like to be grieving in your read more...

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May 14th, 2018
Episode 80

We Can't Know Everything - Staying Curious In Grief (Kara Jones)

Kara Jones is a practitioner working with grieving people and professionals supporting those in grief. We talk about Kara's personal grief after the death of her son and how that experience opened the read more...

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Grief Out Loud is supported in part by the Chester Stephan Endowment Fund in loving memory by the estate of Theodore R. Stephan.