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Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Ep. 570: Very Special Episode: How Do We Deal with the Loss of Our Beloved Father? Advice & Insights

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Lemonada Media

Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement

4.7 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2026

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we talk about the recent death of our beloved father, Jack Craft—what we’ve experienced, what we’ve learned. We also share many tender, practical suggestions from listeners about how to manage this kind of a profound loss.  Resources & links related to this episode: Raymond Carver’s last book, A New Path to the Waterfall (Amazon, Bookshop) One last reminder to sign up for The Happiness Project Revisited course I Want You to Know: My Portrait of You  Obituary of John Charles Craft Elizabeth is reading: Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel (Amazon, Bookshop)  Gretchen is rereading: American Gods by Neil Gaiman (Amazon, Bookshop)  Get in touch: podcast@gretchenrubin.com Visit Gretchen's website to learn more about Gretchen's best-selling books, products from The Happiness Project Collection, and the Happier app. Find the transcript for this episode on the episode details page in the Apple Podcasts app.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Gretch, as we dive into 2026 on the podcast, we know that so many of us want to focus on wellness.

0:08.0

And I love that Whole Foods Market is basically a one-stop shop for wellness.

0:13.9

You can get great lean protein.

0:17.6

You can find good vitamins.

0:20.6

They have meal shortcuts. If you're doing dry January,

0:24.4

Whole Foods Market has great non-acoholic beer, wine, and mottails. Of course, you have to be 21 plus

0:31.1

in select states to get those. But it's all stuff you can get for a good price. Yes. You can find examples of nourishing and cost-friendly finds that will help you towards whatever

0:42.3

your wellness goal is.

0:44.1

And everything follows whole food market's strict ingredient standards.

0:50.2

Plus, their 365 brand has delicious and wallet-happy varieties of all kinds of foods that are ready to eat or whatever you're looking for.

1:00.1

Shop all things wellness at Whole Foods Market.

1:05.4

Lemonada

1:06.0

Hello, and Hello and welcome to Happier, a podcast where we talk about how to be happier.

1:19.4

This week is an extra special, special episode because we feel ready to talk about our father's death.

1:27.1

We'll talk about what we experienced, observed,

1:30.5

and learned through our own experiences, and also we'll share some of the very helpful advice

1:37.0

that we have received from others. I'm Gretchen Rubin, a writer who studies happiness and human

1:42.7

nature. I'm in my little home office in New York City.

1:46.0

And joining me today from Los Angeles is my sister Elizabeth Kraft.

1:49.7

And Elizabeth, it's hard to believe that it has been less than two months since we were all together with dad in Kansas City.

1:57.6

That's me, Elizabeth Kraft, a TV writer and producer living in LA. And yes,

2:02.3

Gretch, one thing that comforts us, though, is that we were all together with dad at the end.

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