Ep. 463 “So Sorry for Your Loss:” Learning to Live with Grief with Dina Gachman

End-of-Life University

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Learn about a grief book that combines personal experience with expert advice and a touch of humor.

My guest Dina Gachman is a Pulitzer Center grantee, an award-winning journalist, and a frequent contributor to the New York Times, Texas Monthly, Vox, and more. She wrote her second book So Sorry for Your Loss: How I Learned to Live with Grief and Other Grave Concerns after experiencing two deaths in her family and needing to process and learn more about her own grief. Learn more at her website:

dinagachmanwrites.com

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YouTube Channel

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This episode includes:

What inspired Dina to write this book
Choosing the right therapist for grief counseling
Her family’s experience with hospice and what she wishes she had known
Why they struggled with accepting palliative care earlier in the course of her mother’s illness
“Opening the box” as a tool for initiating end-of-life conversations
How patient and family stories can help us make productive changes in end-of-life care
Tips for bringing food to a grieving friend (and why a bucket of chicken is worth considering)
Ambiguous loss in the face of alcohol and substance abuse
Responses to the book

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