A Word: Joy and Pain: Navigating Grief

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🗓️ 8 May 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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With one million dead from COVID, many Americans are suffering through profound grief. And for Black Americans, the pandemic combined with the racial reckoning has made the mourning feel endless. On this week’s episode of A Word, Jason Johnson talks with writer Marisa Renee Lee about her new book Grief Is Love: Living With Loss, and about making space for joy in the midst of grief. Guest: Marisa Renee Lee, a writer, speaker, and entrepreneur. Her new book is Grief Is Love: Living With Loss. Podcast production by Jasmine Ellis You can skip all the ads in A Word by joining Slate Plus. Sign up now at slate.com/awordplus for just $1 for your first month. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What the hell?
0:06.0	You're kidding me!
0:08.0	I'm a real loser!
0:10.0	Look at this!
0:12.0	You're kidding me!
0:14.0	I don't like this!
0:15.0	Celebrate Italy not qualifying for the football.
0:17.0	With spicy Italian flavors.
0:19.0	The ultimate spicy sausage.
0:21.0	Topped with Enduja.
0:23.0	A sausage more fiery than a disappointed Italian fan.
0:26.0	Domino!
0:28.0	Subject to availability.
0:33.0	This is a word, a podcast from Slate.
0:35.0	I'm your host, Jason Johnson.
0:37.0	The pandemic era has been full of trauma and grief
0:40.0	for millions of Americans whose loved ones have died of COVID.
0:43.0	And for many African Americans who were hard to hit by the crisis,
0:46.0	the season of sorrow has seen endless.
0:49.0	In her new book, author Marissa Renee Lee shares her own story of grief
0:54.0	and finding joy and a time of loss.
0:57.0	Give yourself some time to just sit and ask yourself,
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