Hi, I'm I'm Bialik.

I'm Jonathan Cohen.

And welcome to our breakdown.

So tomorrow actually is National Grief Awareness Day.

And we thought, in honor of this day, that we would revisit another oldie, but a goodie.

It's an episode we did with really wonderful author and podcaster and kind of expert on

grief Nora McAnnerney. Nora is known for being very outspoken, giving practical tips on

moving through grief paralysis. Her personal story, which she will talk about, she had a heartbreaking

miscarriage and lost her father and her husband all

within weeks of one another. A really unbelievable story of grief and also of healing and resilience.

She gives us a lot of practical tools on how to combat the struggle of dealing with other people's

expectations during the

mourning and grieving process and why it may be difficult to relate to others moving through

the grieving process. I could really relate to what she was talking about, feeling alone and

isolated, but how grief is such an important part of the human experience. Bypassing it can have

really detrimental impacts on our mental health, physical health, and by actually embracing this

and understanding this process, we can move through it much more easily and actually get a lot

of love, compassion, and joy even

from experiencing these emotions. She also talks about why there's no set timeline for grief and

kind of how that plays out. Also, how specific and unique everyone's morning experience will be.

She's also going to talk about some of the physical

symptoms of grief and the benefits of getting support. And we just couldn't think of a better

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