Extra Stories: “Grieving People Still Want to Go to Brunch” with Nora McInerny
How It Is
Hello Sunshine
4.6 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 12 November 2018
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Summary
In the wake of her father’s death and her husband’s terminal cancer diagnosis, Nora McInerny learned something new about grief: It’s a whole lot more complicated than just being sad. This is an extra story from one of your favorite How It Is season 2 storytellers—stay tuned, season 3 is coming soon!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello sunshine. |
| 0:02.0 | Hello sunshine. |
| 0:03.0 | Hello sunshine. |
| 0:04.0 | Gotta make hay while the sunshine. |
| 0:05.6 | What's this? |
| 0:06.4 | This is Hello Sunshine. |
| 0:08.3 | What if by sharing our stories we could change the world. |
| 0:13.0 | Welcome to Hello Sunshine. |
| 0:15.0 | This is how it is, |
| 0:20.0 | the show where you hear women tell their own stories in their own words. |
| 0:23.7 | We're unfiltered, real, and totally ourselves. |
| 0:26.8 | Everyone, it's me Amy Choi, one of the executive producers of how it is. |
| 0:31.8 | And today we have another amazing story for you. |
| 0:35.3 | We've got author, host of terrible thanks for asking, and nonprofit founder, Nora McInerney. |
| 0:41.4 | Her story from season two about losing her father and husband within six weeks of each other, while also raising a toddler probably made you cry and laugh. |
| 0:50.0 | Well, Nora says that's the point. That's how grief works. But we are also more than our sad story. |
| 0:57.0 | If you haven't seen grief, you think that it's just being sad, or maybe you think, okay, well, there are these five steps and I mean I don't know like |
| 1:05.2 | anger depression denial something something but I mean under all that is |
| 1:11.4 | just like crying right there's just like a nice base of crying right like |
| 1:16.1 | we know grief must just be just sad and yes it is and like truly you are grief-stricken when you are told that the person you love has |
| 1:26.6 | terminal illness when you're told that you have a terminal illness but that you can feel and be more than one thing at a time is what everybody needs to understand about grief and I |
| 1:40.2 | It was lonely for us at the same time. |
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