Meghan Riordan Jarvis on Navigating the Trauma of the News
Totally Booked with Zibby
Zibby Owens
4.5 • 643 Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2025
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Recorded live at Zibby’s Bookshop x Minnie Rose, grief expert Meghan Riordan Jarvis, founder of the Grieftastic Book Fair and author of END OF THE HOUR and CAN YOU TELL ME?, joins Zibby for a compassionate conversation about navigating grief, loss, and collective trauma, especially during the holidays. Meghan shares practical, science-backed tools for processing overwhelming news, managing stress in the body, and understanding how writing, movement, and creativity can support healing. Together, they also explore how grief shows up even when loss isn’t personal, how to care for ourselves without minimizing our pain, and how to truly show up for others who are grieving.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome everybody again. We are so thrilled to be here with grief and trauma and grief and loss expert, |
| 0:06.8 | extraordinaire, founder of Griefcastic, book fair, author of these two bucks, Megan Reardon Jarvis. |
| 0:13.2 | Thank you for coming. Thank you. Thank you all for coming. This is amazing. |
| 0:18.8 | So we thought now with the holidays and everything going on in the world, |
| 0:22.8 | this could not be a better time to talk to you about grief and last. I don't know anybody who is not |
| 0:27.5 | reeling from all of the horrible, horrible news from the last couple days. This has just been one thing |
| 0:33.8 | after another and feels like it's not even stopping. So Megan, |
| 0:37.9 | help us through. Just a short order. Well, so let's say this just at the top, which is |
| 0:44.4 | there has been a lot lately. That is a real thing. So if you think about how do we experience |
| 0:51.8 | the world, what do we do with grief? |
| 0:55.2 | We filter it through our bodies. |
| 0:57.6 | So let's start. |
| 0:58.7 | Like everyone's doing the holidays. |
| 1:00.8 | Everyone's overspending, overeating. |
| 1:02.5 | Some of us are waiting to hear where our kids get into college. |
| 1:04.9 | There's all kinds of stress at this moment. |
| 1:07.3 | At this moment. |
| 1:08.1 | There's all kinds of stress that just is this part of year. |
| 1:12.5 | And unlike the Norman Rockwell painting, you know, those propaganda things from that |
| 1:17.2 | war that made it look like Thanksgiving and Christmas worth of times for family. |
| 1:21.5 | There really times where we have a perception that there's going to be joy. |
| 1:27.4 | And there is often like in our left hand, |
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