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This Too Shall Pass: Surviving Mother's Day Without Mum; Covid-19 Edition
Season 1, Ep. 51
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It's great to be baaack!
Under weird circumstances, obv.
This week's episode covers my current experience of the C word (and not the usual one) and how it's affected my life and my mental capacity to prioritise the podcast right now - and how sad I am about it.
I also cover the impending dread of Mother's Day tomorrow (at the time of writing) and how the current situation is impacting our ability to cope with this. Hopefully a few of the tips I speak about in this ep will be useful to you guys!
I'm so grateful to all of you for all of the support you give, not just to me, but to each other. The grief community is honestly the best.
Look forward to catching up with all of you soon! In the meantime, please take care!
Here's a list of all of the books I was recommended as promised!
The Dead Moms Club - Kate Spencer
Grief Is The Thing With Feathers - Max Porter
Bearing The Unbearable - Joanne Cacciatore
The Rules Of Inheritance - Claire Bidwell Smith
Its OK That You’re Not OK - Megan Devine
Good Vibes, Good Life - Vex King
The Power - Naomi Alderman
Grief Observed - C.S. Lewis
Grief Day By Day - Jan Warner
The Denial Of Death - Ernest Becker
Wild - Cheryl Strayed
Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs - Chuck Klosterman
Grief Works - Julia Samuel
Finding Meaning - David Kessler
Undying - Michel Faber
The Lost Properties of Love - Sophie Ratcliffe
Maybe You Should Talk To Someone - Lori Gottlieb
No Happy Endings - Nora Mclnerny
When I Look To The Sky - Sally Roll
Born To Shine - Ashley Lemieux
Dead People Suck - Laurie Kilmartin
The Longest Goodbye - Raymond Chandler
The Year Of Magical Thinking - Joan Didion
Modern Loss - Gabrielle Birkner and Rebecca Soffer
Harry Potter - J.K. Rowling
The Beautiful Things - Cheryl Strayed
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