Good Grief
Jay Gearing
Good Grief is a podcast about grief but also how we develop, learn and form meaningful traditions around it.
I’ve lost loved ones in my life, most of us have. But recently I lost someone and I just didn’t know what to do. I didn’t know how to process it, but equally I didn’t know what to do to help friends or family experiencing loss. Selfishly it scared me and reminded me of my own mortality. I guess I’ve avoided anything related to death or grief for my entire life. I was shocked by how much I didn’t know and how we never talk about it as a society. I mean it’s one of life’s most inevitable things, why don’t I have any tools at my disposal to deal with it? It’s clear we’re frightened to talk about it, which makes sense considering, but keeping it at arms length makes it increasingly more difficult to understand or create helpful traditions around. How can we ever help, understand or support people grieving if we never talk about it?
I did some research and deve