Thank you for joining us for episode 570 of Live Happy Now.

Managing grief as an adult is difficult, but what happens when you need to help a child navigate it?

This week's guest is here to answer that question.

I'm your host Paula Phelps, and today I'm joined by Dr. Corey Lee, an internationally recognized

expert in childhood bereavement and a best-selling author. Her newest book, When Everything

Changes, Parenting Through Loss and Grief, was written to help families navigate grief with

honesty, clarity, and compassion. Today, she sits down to talk about how children handle grief

differently and what adults need to know to help them on that journey. Let's have a listen.

Dr. Corey, thank you so much for being with me today. And thank you for having me. It's a pleasure.

Oh, well, this is a fantastic time to talk to you. May is Mental Health

Awareness Month, so it's a great time to talk about the role that grief plays in mental

health. And obviously, we're going to dig into that. But I wanted to find out, first of all,

why it was such an area of interest for you to study. I started out in my profession as a

child life specialist. A lot of people haven't heard of this

career before. So for your listeners that are like a child life, what? They're Googling it right now.

Yeah, they're like, wait, what does she say? The life of a child? So typically, child life specialists

work in pediatric hospitals. We are trained at the intersection of typical childhood

growth and development and the impact that stress, hospitalization, trauma, and illness has on that

child's development. So in a hospital setting, you'll find us oftentimes preparing children for medical procedures, helping them

cope through that medical procedure, teaching them about a new diagnosis, helping the siblings

understand what's happening. And of course, in any kind of pediatric setting, you'll have

children who are quite critically ill. And so even though

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