Hi, everyone. It's Dr. Niagara again. Our next episode of Psychology Unplugged.

As always, thanks to all of our listeners, new and long term.

Appreciate the opportunity to do this every week.

And if I haven't gotten back to, I will give you contact information to reach me at the end of this episode.

I mentioned a few episodes ago that someone that's been in contact with me had reached out about doing an episode on grief.

And that is what I will plan to talk about today. And I did want to think a while ago,

it would be like two or three years ago. But I think as the podcast evolves, it continues to evolve,

I've tried to be more systematic, even though I'll go off on

tangents, and especially if, you know, Julie and I are talking, um, about topic together. But I wanted

to do, um, do this more systematically because we're having, um, someone who's lost both of my parents and I was incredibly

fortunate to have had amazing parents in terms of love and what they provided the lessons that they

taught the door was always open i missed the late night you know my late teen, probably early 20s, sitting with my mom

at kitchen table playing canasta.

She would pour coffee that she had made from earlier in the day and like cold coffee.

We would just sit up and talk about life.

And my dad, after my mom passed away, became a, you always was, but became a more central

figure in my life. And I was very proud and privileged to have had someone that wasn't just

my father but truly my my best friend and when you know people ask um I get you know I ask

about grief and loss as part of a structured clinical interview.

And there's a lot of emotion around it.

And an interesting thing, I guess you could say the same with love.

It's, this is a universal human experience.

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