EP24: Thriving through Grief
Let's Talk About It With Taylor Nolan
Wave Podcast Network
3.4 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 15 May 2018
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Suicide is not inevitable for anyone. By starting the conversation, providing support, and directing help, we can prevent suicides and save lives. 4 years ago, Eric Hodgdon lost his 15-year old daughter Zoi to suicide and since then he has been fighting for his family, all of Zoi’s friends and others to find their pathway back to better days – to become resilient and thrive in life as he is now.
RESOURCES
A Sherpa Named Zoi: How to Walk Through Grief and Live with Intention
Suicide Prevention Hotline 800-273-8255
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Let's Talk About It with Taylor Rolen. I'm your host Taylor and I'm joined by my |
| 0:12.3 | co-host, Kid Spender. Hello everyone, how are you? I'm doing swell. How are you? I'm really good. I'm |
| 0:20.5 | excited about this conversation with Eric Hodgden. Yes, me too. He has just such a powerful story and |
| 0:30.3 | it just it gives it makes me feel all the feels. He lost his daughter Zoe four years ago and lost her |
| 0:40.3 | to suicide and you know it is May it is mental health awareness month and suicide is a topic that |
| 0:47.8 | is often very scary to address but it's also I think something that comes up regularly for people |
| 0:54.5 | throughout life you know different low points where perhaps suicidal thoughts come in and |
| 1:00.2 | I definitely want to encourage everyone at least at the end of the episode to check out our |
| 1:06.0 | episode notes and the different resources that are available both from our guest Eric and just |
| 1:12.0 | from other organizations around the country. Eric is now speaking around different communities |
| 1:18.2 | teaching people how to thrive through grief and has wrote a book on it as well called a Sherpa |
| 1:25.1 | name Zoe. Which I just love the title of that a Sherpa name Zoe. Yeah, it's beautiful so I'm very |
| 1:31.2 | excited to talk to this guest today so let's bring them on. Hey, welcome Eric to the show. Thank you so |
| 1:37.2 | much for having me, Gailor. Yeah, I'm really excited to have you here. We didn't actually meet |
| 1:44.3 | at the active minds conference but I did see you know that you were doing a talk there and I'm |
| 1:51.5 | really really happy that you reached out to me and I'm really excited about having you on today to |
| 1:57.1 | talk about you know your experience with losing a loved one to suicide and how you're you are |
| 2:03.3 | managing and also helping teach other people how to thrive through their grief. I think that's a |
| 2:09.3 | kind of a newer like idea around processing grief. Right, no, I agree. Thank you so much for |
| 2:18.5 | allowing me to share that with your audience too. I appreciate that. Yeah, definitely. |
| 2:23.8 | And so I've learned a little bit about your story just through some of my research on you and |
| 2:28.8 | through our conversations and Kit as well but would love to kind of start from the beginning of where |
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