Book Recommendation: Brain Tumor: A Love Story by Kathy Eliscu and Ted White

Available worldwide, this dot grid, cream paper, numbered page journal is ready for YOU! It has a 16 page section at the front with resources from me and the School of American Thanatology.

We collect losses as we move through our lives. One after another. If we live a very long time, we’ll probably be able to look back and remember particularly rough years….somewhat brief periods of time that were seasoned with an impossible amount of loss. Sometimes we lose multiple loved ones within months or weeks of each other. Other times we experience multiple life-changing Shadowlosses in succession. Sometimes we define entire decades or chapters of life by our losses, using them as landmarks to find our way across the map of our lives.

Another fun interview anniversary from my hometown! In 2019, little did I know how much my career and work would change by a pandemic that was yet to arrive. This interview now serves as a special memory of that time. My favorite part is the illustration they had commissioned for the article.

Cole Imperi was featured on Connecticut Public Radio’s Disrupted Episode on Death and Dying.

Grief isn’t the thing that makes life harder, it’s actually there to help you sort through the pain and the mess. But, we often displace our anger at the loss we have encountered, and direct it towards the grief, instead. Please don’t confuse the grief for the loss. The loss is what hurt you, not the grief.

Grief is not something you are punished with. Grief is not an illness. Grief is not a battle. Grief is not a foreign intruder, taking up space inside you against your will. Grief is something that belongs to you. It is a part of you. It has always been there, and will continue to be there.

It’s my opinion that Americans don’t have a taboo around death at all. The taboo is actually around grief. If America had a taboo around death, it wouldn’t be plastered everywhere.