Terrible, Thanks for Asking
Call Your Girlfriend
Ann Friedman and Aminatou Sow
4.7 • 4.2K Ratings
🗓️ 5 April 2019
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Have you experienced a big loss? The death of a friend, family member, illness, even a breakup or losing a job can be devastating. Help and support pour in for a day, a week. And then what? We're supposed to just be fine and pretend like it never happened? We realtalk grief and suffering with Nora McInerny, host of the podcast Terrible, Thanks for Asking, and author of funny-sad books like her latest, No Happy Endings.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to call your girlfriend a podcast for long distance besties everywhere |
| 0:04.8 | I'm I mean not too so and I'm Ann Friedman hey Ann Friedman |
| 0:09.4 | Love that I just |
| 0:11.4 | Quickly swallowed a mouthful of popcorn |
| 0:15.2 | So you know we've really gotten casual about podcasting I know this popcorn water on the table snacks |
| 0:21.8 | Yeah, just snacks. It's cool. I'm excited about today's show tell me I spoke to Nora McNeerney |
| 0:29.0 | the author of no happy endings and the host of |
| 0:33.9 | Terrible things for asking a podcast that I really really really love |
| 0:38.4 | She's on this week to talk about a lot of things that are central to her work. So mostly grief |
| 0:45.1 | dealing with grief and being a resilient person and moving on and just living in a world where |
| 0:50.4 | Everything is really fucking hard |
| 0:52.4 | like truly truly truly one of my favorite conversations and |
| 0:56.8 | I've been thinking a lot about you know how joy and tragedy are |
| 1:02.8 | There's just like a part of life you will be so lucky to be joyful in your life |
| 1:07.0 | But you will 100% experience tragedy. Oh, is that a master? I mean not too so let me tell you and just like you know |
| 1:13.7 | It's like life is life is really hard these days or at least like for me it is and so having somebody who |
| 1:20.3 | Things about these things a lot and has been like really generous about |
| 1:24.8 | Talking about their own grief and their own experience with you know losing people that are close to them and still having to put one foot in front of the other every day |
| 1:34.1 | Like that's something that I really appreciate and making some space to actually talk about grief |
| 1:39.4 | It really confelms me how little we talk about it when tragedy is literally like it's happening right now |
| 1:45.1 | So right every day is the worst day of someone's life, you know and she write that book. I love it |
| 1:51.4 | But it's so it's true and it is truly shocking that we just like we don't talk about it enough |
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