This Too Shall Pass: Surviving Mother's Day Without Mum; Covid-19 Edition
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03/21/20 • 33 min
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
Follow me on Instagram - @dpcpodcast
Facebook - Dead Parent Club
Website - www.dpcpodcast.co.uk
Email - [email protected]
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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
Follow me on Instagram - @dpcpodcast
Facebook - Dead Parent Club
Website - www.dpcpodcast.co.uk
Email - [email protected]
Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/deadparentclub.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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You can still be fully content in your life and miss your Dad. Creating your new normal and navigating grief as a male; with Laurence Field
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Welcoming Laurence Field to the DPC podcast!
Firstly, a huge thank you to Laurence for coming onto the show and for sharing his personal story and for giving such incredible advice to all of you guys!
Laurence's Dad passed around 3 years ago from what was originally diagnosed as skin cancer which unfortunately became terminal.
He speaks about realising how he and his four brothers were all grieving differently, accepting his New Normal and how he still has a relationship with his Dad - it's just very different. He also talks about how important it is to sit and deal with your grief head on so that it doesn't overwhelm you as you get older.
I loved recording this episode and after listening it back as I was editing it I had even more of an appreciation of just how brilliant Laurence spoke and how many insightful things he had to say and offer to all of the DPC's listeners.
Feel free to reach out to Laurence on Instagram should you wish to!
@field.laurence
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Next Episode
“If one good thing comes out of it.. I’ve got funnier.” Using humour to survive grief; with Alexa Gibbens
Alexa Gibbens is an incredible performer, both as a circus artist and stand up comedian. And I was lucky enough to have her on the podcast this week to speak about her show ‘Alexa, tell us a Dad joke’.
First and foremost - what an epic name for a show. I LOVE it!!
Alexa speaks about how her Dad dying brought her humour down to a whooooole new level. Who knew you could create a whole hour’s show based on your Dad dying and all the ‘funny’ things that tragedy entails?!
Obviously it’s a topic that raises a few eyebrows, however, all of us in the Dead Parent Club are guaranteed to have a hundred head-nodding moments and belly laughs throughout the whole of her masterpiece.
This week’s episode obviously starts with a brief stint about the ever-popular Covid-19 and follows on to speak about Alexa’s time at university and how the death of her Dad led her down a new route in Stand Up Comedy. We also discuss rooting through your parent’s ashes to collect samples to send to a tattoo-ist and the weird things you find... And how after death you just aren’t the same person anymore. And obviously a tonne more stuff!!
If you’d like to watch it (and you definitely should) follow the link below!
Watch Alexa's Show: Alexa, Tell Us A Dad Joke!
You can find Alexa on her social channels at:
@Alexajadeg
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Alexa Gibbens - Performer
And you can find us at...
Instagram - @dpcpodcast
Facebook - Dead Parent Club Podcast
Website - www.dpcpodcast.co.uk
Email - [email protected]
Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/deadparentclub.
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