When Surviving Is Enough, From "A Slight Change of Plans"

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Feelings & Co.

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4.7 • 13.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

If you’ve listened to our show, at all, ever, you know that grief has been a big part of Nora’s life since 2014 when she lost her husband Aaron. Since then, she’s built this show, her writing, and much of her life around helping others navigate their own grief. Despite all this, Nora never felt like she was doing enough, until the events of 2021 forced her to slow down and re-examine her grief once again. Nora recently appeared on the podcast "A Slight Change of Plans" with Dr. Maya Shankar, where she shared for the first time the story of why 2021 was, in Nora’s words, her worst year since 2014. It’s a raw and honest conversation about long-term grief, and we knew we had to share it here. You can find "A Slight Change of Plans" on their website or wherever you get your podcasts. We're coming to your living room on December 6th with a *new* and terrible holiday show! RSVP for Happyish Holidays here. Read the episode transcript here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's that time of year again.
0:05.0	I'm talking about time to get back to our terrible holiday tradition.
0:09.9	I'm talking about happy-ish holidays.
0:12.3	Yes, it is a podcast episode, but it is also a live show, a party for anybody who has
0:16.9	a complicated relationship with the holiday season.
0:21.1	This year, there's two ways to join in the fun.
0:23.1	You can join us in-person at the Parkway Theatre in Minneapolis on Tuesday, December 6th
0:28.2	at 7.30 pm Central Standard Time or online via live stream same time, same time, same time
0:37.0	different place because you can watch it wherever you are.
0:39.4	Again, that's Tuesday, December 6th at 7.30 Central Standard Time.
0:45.2	Get your tickets at happyishholidays.com.
0:48.6	We'll also have a link in the show notes.
1:07.1	I'm Nora McEnerney, and if you know anything about me, you know that 2014 was the worst
1:13.5	year of my life.
1:15.8	Let's knock on wood.
1:17.9	From October to November of that year, I lost a pregnancy, my dad died, and then my husband
1:23.3	died, and obviously, obviously from all of that grew this, grew this show, the several
1:32.0	books that I have written, the TED Talk that I gave, and this group that I had started
1:38.2	called the Hot Young Widows Club.
1:41.6	What I did in the wake of all that loss was to wrap myself and my story and my identity
1:46.8	and my work into this nice, tight braid.
1:51.6	And in 2021, parts of that braid unraveled.
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