Grief is Love: Navigating Loss, Health & Transformation | Marisa Renee Lee
Good Life Project
Jonathan Fields / Acast
4.5 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 20 June 2024
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Author Marisa Renee Lee dives deep into her book Grief Is Love: Living with Loss, recounting personal losses that sparked an awakening - grief stems from love, a vital truth for healing. She dispels myths about "moving on" from grief, instead advocating to embrace it.
Marisa shares how marginalized communities face disproportionate grief with little support, underscoring the need for change. You'll learn about self-compassion, vulnerability, and creating "certainty anchors" amidst uncertainty.
Whether facing deep loss or supporting a loved one, this conversation provides a refreshing perspective on an inevitable experience.
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| 0:00.0 | When you suffer a tremendous loss of any kind you need room to fall apart because at the end of the day it is a transformative experience and you are going to be different as you work your way through that than you were before the thing happened. |
| 0:16.4 | Whether it's a health situation, the end of a marriage, the loss of someone you love, |
| 0:20.7 | like all of those things are transformational experiences and they require |
| 0:24.8 | space to just fall apart, come undone and not everyone is allowed to do that. Hey, so have you ever experienced a loss that's just so profound, it shook the very foundations of your world. |
| 0:40.0 | A grief so deep, it felt like a part of your soul was being ripped away, leaving you lost and adrift in a sea of sorrow. |
| 0:46.0 | If so you're not alone, grief is just this universal human experience. |
| 0:50.0 | Yet it's often one we feel really ill-equipped to handle. My guest today, |
| 0:54.8 | Marissa Renee Lee, knows this pain all too well. In 2008, after a courageous battle, |
| 0:59.5 | Marissa lost her mom to cancer and this devastating loss, it transformed her life and |
| 1:04.3 | set her on a quest to really understand the true nature of grief and what healing |
| 1:09.0 | really requires. Marissa has since become a leading expert on coping with loss. |
| 1:14.6 | She's a former appointee of the White House, a managing director of My Brothers Keeper, Alliance, |
| 1:20.1 | co-founder of the Digital Platform Supportal, and founder of the Pink Agenda, a national organization dedicated to raising money for breast cancer care, research and awareness. |
| 1:29.0 | And her insights have been featured in Glamour, Vogue, MSMBC, and CNN. |
| 1:33.8 | And in her book, Grief is Love, Living with Loss. |
| 1:37.2 | Marissa really shares her hard-earned wisdom |
| 1:39.2 | on navigating the landscape of loss. |
| 1:42.0 | She challenges the conventional ideas about grief and |
| 1:44.8 | healing and invites us to see grief not as a force to be overcome but as a powerful |
| 1:50.4 | expression of love, a love that endures even after death, which is something we talk about. |
| 1:56.6 | Join me for this deeply moving and ultimately uplifting conversation about love and loss, |
| 2:01.5 | resilience and the human capacity to not just survive grief, but to allow |
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