Inspired by my own journey with mental health, I founded Girls Talk, our own safe space where we

share, listen and support each other. So get cozy and join me. Adjua for some much-needed

girls' talk. On today's episode, we're talking about grief. Although grief is a normal, very real part of life,

grief feels like uncharted territory for many of us. Today, I'm grateful to welcome Dina Gouchman

to the podcast, the author of So Sorry for Your Loss, How I Learned to Live with Grief and Other Grave

Concerns. A series of essays that

explores grief through the lens of Dina's own lived experience with loss and grief. Dina, welcome to the

podcast. Hi, Dina. Thank you so much for being on the Girls Talk podcast. Thank you for having me.

So I've read your incredible book,

So Sorry for Your Loss,

How I Learn to Live with Grief and Other Grave Concerns,

but tell our lovely listeners about your wonderful new book.

So So Sorry for Your Loss is a book of essays about grief,

and it's rooted in my experience of losing my mom to

cancer in 2018, and then my sister Jackie to alcoholism two years later. And each chapter kind of

looks at a different experience of grief, whether it's hospice or losing a pet or ambiguous loss.

I also weave in reporting and interviews with other people to kind of make it a larger

look at grief. So it's rooted in my story, but I think it kind of goes beyond that and just is a way

to look at grief in a very honest way. I've read quite a few books on like grief and and have

watched all the films and all the things

in the world. And I wouldn't even describe it as like heavy. Do you know what I mean? Of course

it is heavy your book, but there's also a lightness to it as well, which I wasn't expecting,

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