Let's Chat... Mortality (with Sue Brayne)

01/25/22 • 29 min

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The Silent Why: finding hope in grief and loss

#017. Welcome to some new types of episodes for 2022 - 'Let’s Chat...'

These episodes will pop up each month as I (Claire Sandys, one of the co-hosts of The Silent Why podcast) chat to a guest who has experience or expertise in a particular area that can help us either deal with, or prepare for, loss. We'll be putting these out every now and then instead of our usual 101 loss episodes.
And I'm building a tool kit, well actually, a whole tool shed, of equipment to help you face and get through loss. And I'm very keen to see what each guest adds to my new shed.
I'm kicking off this new series chatting to Sue Brayne about mortality.
Sue Brayne hosts a podcast called Embracing your Mortality where she speaks with guests about why engaging with our mortality matters. She’s a speaker, an author and has been involved with end-of-life research, and years as a therapist working in bereavement and grief, and now she hosts Death Cafes too.
I spoke to her about why facing our mortality and knowing we’re going to die one day is a useful tool when preparing for, or going through, loss. And asked her what actually happens at a Death Cafe?!
For more about Sue visit: https://suebrayne.co.uk/

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The Silent Why: finding hope in grief and loss - Let's Chat... Mortality (with Sue Brayne)

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Hello there, and welcome to a new type of episode we're releasing in 2022. Called Let's Chat...

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I'm Claire Sandys, co-host of The Silent Why podcast, and blog writer and the voice of our My Why episodes that we put out every Friday. We're doing something exciting for 2022 and releasing some episodes that slightly break away from our Silent Why mission of finding 101 different types of loss. These Le