Grief: It’s OK That You’re Not OK

Call Her Daddy

Alex Cooper

Comedy

4.4 • 164.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Grief comes in many forms - it’s a universal experience. But, do you really know how to handle it? Psychotherapist and grief expert, Megan Devine joins Call Her Daddy to discuss her own journey with grief after the sudden loss of her partner. Megan provides tangible advice to support yourself and others managing grief. She shares exactly what NOT to do when it comes to supporting a grieving friend and offers the best ways to show up and support someone. Megan speaks about the importance of setting boundaries while grieving and shares some personal boundaries she created in the aftermath of losing her partner. She talks about the feelings associated with grieving a toxic person, and has advice for navigating the mix of feelings that come with that experience. Megan challenges the idea that grief is something to overcome and normalizes - it’s okay to be really fucking sad. Whether you are recently grieving, years out or looking to support someone who recently experienced loss, Megan provides the insight we all need to hear. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	What is up daddy gang? It is your founding father Alex Cooper with call her daddy.
0:11.0	Megan Devine welcome to to Call Her Daddy.
0:14.0	Thank you. Glad to be here.
0:16.0	You are a psychotherapist and grief expert in your book,
0:20.0	it's okay that you're not okay.
0:22.0	You write, all of us are going to experience deep grief or loss at some
0:26.9	point in our lives. Loss is a universal experience. You began your grief advocacy work when you realized the way society and unfortunately many therapists handle grief is flawed.
0:40.0	How did you experience this firsthand?
0:43.4	Okay, so there's a lot in there.
0:46.4	I want to start just by referencing that part of the book where I say that everybody's going to experience deep grief.
0:53.8	And I think something that has become, I don't know,
0:57.6	understood in a different way over the last couple of years
1:00.8	is that everyday life is full of grief. So when as you and I are talking
1:04.4	about grief it's it's not just something that belongs to like an out of order death
1:09.6	or something incredibly traumatic that grief is a big spectrum.
1:13.6	And I say that as a lead-in to your question, which was how did I learn that the way that we deal
1:19.6	with grief in this culture is so screwed up?
1:21.9	Well, I learned that the way we deal with grief
1:25.2	is screwed up in this culture after my partner died in a sudden accident. Now I
1:29.7	had been a psychotherapist for a really long time. I dealt with grief, I dealt with trauma, I dealt
1:35.8	with the things that bring us into the therapy room, right? And I did a really good job at it, but you know when Matt died, the things that people
1:45.8	said to me, the well-meaning things that most people said to me. Some people were jerks,
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