Esther Calling - Grief is Like a Fingerprint

Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel

Esther Perel Global Media

Mental Health, Society & Culture, Self-improvement, Education, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 15.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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This episode contains discussions of a death by suicide. Please take care listening. Recently, on Where Should We Begin, we've been focusing on the things we sweep under the rug in our relationships—conversations that we have a hard time having with ourselves let alone with others. This week, Esther talks to a woman stricken with grief--one year ago, her sister and father died in quick succession. Her remaining family was torn apart and she feels left to pick up the pieces on her own. Esther walks her through how to make space for the immeasurable grief. If you have an individual question you would like to talk through with Esther, please send a voice memo to [email protected]. If you would like to apply for a couples session with Esther, please click here: https://bit.ly/40fGHIU. Esther’s two new courses on desire are now available inside The Desire Bundle. Go to https://www.estherperel.com/course-bundles/the-desire-bundle to learn more about Bringing Desire Back and Playing with Desire. Want to learn more? Receive monthly insights, musings, and recommendations to improve your relational intelligence via email from Esther: https://www.estherperel.com/newsletter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	In the recent episodes, I've been focusing on courageous conversations, or conversations
0:10.8	actually that we typically avoid, or things that we sweep under the rug, or conversations
0:16.4	we have in our own head sometimes instead of actually with the person with whom we should be having
0:21.6	the conversation with. Or conversations that are in our own head because we no longer can actually
0:27.0	talk to the person with whom we would like to have this conversation because they're not there
0:32.6	anymore. And so this episode is about grief, it's about loss.
0:39.3	It centers around the death of an older father,
0:42.3	which seems to be part of the normal order of things.
0:46.3	Parents go before their children.
0:48.3	But then also the death of a sibling by suicide,
0:52.3	which feels like a massive interruption in the fabric of life, in the
0:58.1	thread. And as you listen to this episode, I want you to please take care of yourself,
1:05.8	know that this is about grief, but also about how this can actually become, not something that we sweep under
1:15.7	the rug and avoid or get pissed at internally, but that actually we begin to understand
1:24.4	that there are many parts to a conversation and we sometimes only inhabit
1:31.0	one piece of the larger story and other members of our family or our circle will actually
1:38.5	highlight those parts and it's not because our parts are the truer ones and they should switch.
1:46.0	It's because the complexity of some of the large human experiences are multifaceted.
1:53.0	And we have a way each of us to just express one piece of the facet, as it should be.
2:01.7	So let's listen.
2:06.9	I'm Ashley C. Ford, and I host Into the Mix,
2:14.6	a Ben and Jerry's podcast about joy and justice produced with Vox Creative.
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