Understanding Grief in a Time of National Mourning

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Politics, News, News Commentary

4.6 • 656 Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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More than one million Americans have died from COVID-19. Close to 8,000 Americans have died from gun violence in 2022. Another nine thousand died of suicide. The difficult news of our time goes far beyond death. The planet is in crisis, tornados, floods and fires are ravishing whole towns, economic instability, racial injustice, and the rolling back of rights we’ve counted on for 50 years. It’s a lot. On this Memorial Day, we take time to make space for our individual and collective grief. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:51.2	From KQED in San Francisco, I'm Rachel Myro in for Alexis Madrigal.
0:57.3	Are you feeling overwhelmed by everything? I'll be honest, I burst into tears daily reading the news about mass shootings. I wake up in the middle of the night worried about a
1:02.8	nuclear war and climate change and the gradual collapse of our democracy. I can't make emotional
1:09.2	sense of a concept like one million COVID deaths.
1:12.6	And all of this is layered on top of all of the stuff happening with me and those I love.
1:18.6	You two? Let's take this opportunity on Memorial Day to make space for our collective grief
1:24.6	and talk about strategies to cope. That's all coming up after the news.
1:33.5	Welcome to Form. I'm Rachel Myro in for Alexis Madrigal. COVID, gun violence, suicide, war, climate change. The news headlines are overwhelming.
1:48.2	I'm not saying people didn't suffer in generations before this time, but everything going on right now, it's a lot.
1:55.4	This hour, we've put together a panel of people you might call experts in processing grief, individual and
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