Widowhood, Sexuality, and Complicated Grief – An Interview with Rebecca Woolf

Just Break Up: Relationship Advice from Your Queer Besties

Sierra DeMulder and Sam Blackwell

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.9 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2022

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Rebecca Woolf has worked as a freelance writer since age 16 when she became a leading contributor to the hit 90s book series, Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul. Since then, she's started the blog Girl’s Gone Child, appeared on CNN and NPR, has been featured in The New York Times, Time Magazine and New York Mag, and recently published her second book All of This: A Memoir of Death and Desire. The conversation covers the complexity of grief, relationship quality vs. quantity, practicing vulnerability, death, and divorce. Join us on Patreon and get an extra episode each week, a back catalog of 100+ episodes, and video! SUBMIT: justbreakuppod.com FACEBOOK: /justbreakuppod INSTAGRAM: @justbreakuppod TWITTER: @justbreakuppod BLIND DATE: Sharon Von Etten Original music, recording, and editing by Spencer Wirth-Davis Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:57.8	Welcome to Just Break Up, the podcast about love, Heartbreak, and all the relationship advice you don't want to hear.
1:06.0	My name is Sierra Demoldtar.
1:08.0	And I'm Sam Blackwell.
1:10.0	And this week on Head and Heart Work Conversations. We're talking to author Rebecca Wolf, whose
1:14.6	pronouns are she her. She is a freelance writer, column writer for Romper, the column
1:20.2	is titled Sex and the Single Mom, and she is the author of the new memoir
1:24.8	All of this. Rebecca, thank you so much for being here. We're so happy to chat with you
1:29.7	today. Thank you so much for having me. Yeah, of course.
1:33.0	We kind of like met each other in a peripheral way in my work in the poetry world at a great nonprofit in
1:40.4	LA called Get Lit that you were also like involved in and I've just sort of been like
1:45.9	following you and your story and your family since then and it's just so great to
1:50.9	actually collaborate in a professional way and also like on a personal
1:54.5	level say like hey how's it going and how are you?
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