How to Acknowledge Grief and Carry What Can't Be Fixed | Insights At The Edge Podcast

When we suffer a serious loss, we come face-to-face with the fragile nature of this world. Yet in today’s culture, we often try to avoid or deny the deep emotions associated with losing the people and things we love. In this podcast, Tami Simon speaks with therapist and grief consultant Megan Devine about her uniquely helpful books with Sounds True, It’s OK That You’re Not OK, and How to Carry What Can’t Be Fixed. Tune in for a much-needed conversation on the best ways to tend to one another’s pain during periods of loss, as Tami and Megan discuss: the cover-up narrative that “bad things help us grow”; the roots of today’s grief phobia; pain vs suffering; grief without a story; the healing power of acknowledgment; tolerating feelings of helplessness; the impulse to fix things; the weaponization of acceptance; time and the notion of complicated grief; the dangers of pathologizing grief; the lost opportunity to reframe grief during the pandemic; naming the awkward instead of silencing yourself; offering concrete assistance rather than an open offer to help; three kinds of hope: transactional, functional, and inhabitable; speaking our truth and allowing others the same; and more. This episode originally aired on Sounds True One, where these special episodes of Insights at the Edge are available to watch live on video and ad-free with exclusive access to Q&As with our guests. Learn more at https://bit.ly/3GCaosl. More from Megan Devine: https://bit.ly/4a4XqB9 It's OK That You're Not OK by Megan Devine: Sounds True - https://bit.ly/416ZUed Amazon - https://amzn.to/3R8FLzW Barnes & Noble - https://bit.ly/4a6LEGe IndieBound (Bookshop) - https://bit.ly/47ime6V Sounds True was founded in 1985 by Tami Simon with a clear mission: to disseminate spiritual wisdom. Since starting out as a project with one woman and her tape recorder, we have grown into a multimedia publishing company with more than 80 employees, a library of more than 1500 titles featuring some of the leading teachers and visionaries of our time, and an ever-expanding family of customers from across the world. In more than three decades of growth, change, and evolution, Sounds True has maintained its focus on its overriding purpose, as summed up in our Mission Statement. Connect with us: Facebook: http://bit.ly/2XFIIeE Instagram: http://bit.ly/2UlEoiH Website: http://bit.ly/2tOl02d