Marisa Renee Lee: ...living with loss

Nobody Told Me!

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🗓️ 30 August 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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If you've experienced the death of a family member or close friend, you know how painful it can be and may wonder if the pain of that loss will ever end. Our guest on this episode, writer Marisa Renee Lee, is the author of a new book on grief that's generating rave reviews from many people, including us.

In her book, Marisa writes very eloquently about the losses she's experienced, the death of her mother, the loss of a pregnancy, and the recent passing of a cousin. Her new book is called "Grief is Love: Living with Loss."

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0:00.0	Welcome to Nobody Told Me. I'm Laura Owens, and I'm Jan Black. If you've experienced the death of a family member or close friend, you know how painful it can be and may wonder if the pain of that loss will
0:22.2	ever end. Our guest on this episode, writer Marissa Renee Lee, is the author of a new book on
0:28.1	grief that's generating rave reviews from many people, including us. Absolutely. And in that book,
0:34.0	Marissa writes very eloquently about the losses she's experienced, the death of
0:39.1	her mother, the loss of a pregnancy, and the recent passing of a cousin.
0:43.5	Her new book is called Grief is Love, Living with Loss.
0:47.9	Marissa, we thank you so much for joining us.
0:50.3	Thank you so much for having me.
0:51.9	I really appreciate it.
0:52.9	I love the mother-daughter duo. This is going to be fun.
0:56.8	Yeah, yeah, because your book touches on the loss of your mother in a big way. And I know that you write that your mother taught you to hold both grief and joy simultaneously. Tell us more about that. Yeah, it's one of those things,
1:14.5	and I'm sure you both experienced this and many other people as well, that I didn't realize I was
1:21.1	learning as a child, but it's something that I just absorbed by virtue of the fact that my you know, my mom first got sick when I was 13
1:29.7	and she was only 37 and we would come to find out a few years later that she had multiple sclerosis.
1:37.7	And as a young person, you know, growing up with a sick parent was really hard.
1:43.4	But at the same time, there was never
1:46.2	any absence of fun. You know, my mom was big on holidays. So like Christmas was over the top. And
1:52.6	planning started for Christmas in July or August. You know, every summer we would have big parties.
1:58.4	I can remember standing in the kitchen in my parents' house making one of those American flag cakes that had been on the cover of better home and gardens yet. You know what I'm talking about? Like the cream and the berries and the whole thing. Yeah. Like that, like that was my life. Like it was, it was that. And then sometimes it was days where, you know, my mom couldn't get out of bed and I was in
2:18.5	charge of making dinner at 14, you know? So it like, like that was just what was normal to me
2:24.8	because she was sick, but also because she was so committed to making life as fun and joyful
2:33.6	and just positive and pleasant as she could possibly make it,
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