Grief Companionship

Call Your Girlfriend

Ann Friedman and Aminatou Sow

Society & Culture

4.7 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Grief can come in so many forms and impact us in unexpected ways. Illustrator and designer Ngaio Parr knows all too well, having lost four family members in four years. Retreating from family and friends? Strange physical symptoms? Suddenly seeing things everywhere that echo a lost loved one? All these normal forms of grieving can be confusing in a world that's all too ready to have you move on. To help, Ngaio has designed and illustrated The Grief Companion, a deck of cards with beautiful abstract watercolor images with prompts, insights and actions, for the moments when you can only do a little bit at a time. Plus, we discuss how to be there for friends who are grieving.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Call Your Girlfriend, a podcast for long distance festies everywhere.
0:06.4	I'm Amina Tussaud, and I'm Anne Friedman.
0:09.0	Hey Anne Friedman, what's up this week?
0:11.4	We sort of have a heavy agenda today.
0:13.7	We are going to have a conversation about grief, which maybe it's just my people or like
0:20.8	this still in a pandemic, pervasive heaviness that is going on, but grief just feels pervasive
0:28.7	right now.
0:29.7	Myo comes to grief from a really harrowing experience of having four family members
0:36.3	pass away in the span of four years, one of whom was her dad who was like super, super
0:42.3	close to her.
0:44.2	And so we'll be talking about grief in that sense of grieving a loved one, someone who
0:49.3	was really core to you and to your life.
0:52.9	The impetus for our conversation is to talk a little bit about the grief companion, which
0:57.4	is an illustrated deck of cards that Nio created.
1:00.9	She observed when she was grieving that she didn't really have the energy to sit down and
1:05.0	read a linear book, which is what a lot of people were recommending to her to support
1:09.1	her.
1:10.1	She didn't have the attention span and also like books are inherently linear and she wanted
1:14.5	something that reflected the fact that the grieving process is not linear.
1:29.8	She put together this deck of cards, she hand painted them by the way, and the cards
1:54.5	can be used in a number of ways.
1:55.6	You can pull an insight card, an action card, or a prompt for your journaling.
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