S4 - EP22 - How’s the Weather? Erin Clark on Grief, Love and Learning to Live Again

What do you say when “How are you?” feels impossible to answer?

This week I’m joined by Erin Clark, whose husband Greg died suddenly from a heart attack in 2021 after more than 30 years of marriage. One moment they were enjoying a simple family dinner with their children, and the next Erin found herself performing CPR on the man she’d loved since she was 19.

In this deeply moving conversation, Erin shares the reality of losing her person overnight, the guilt she carried after falling asleep in a different room for the first time in three decades, and the crushing loneliness of learning to navigate a world that no longer made sense.

We talk about the strange business of grief, the impossible task of telling your children their father has died, and why the second year can sometimes feel even harder than the first.

Erin also shares the story behind How’s the Weather?, a simple but powerful question she created when she realised she no longer knew how to answer “How are you?”. Together we explore the idea that grief, like the weather, is constantly changing. Storms give way to sunshine, only for clouds to roll back in again.

This is a conversation about enduring love, surviving the unsurvivable, and finding your way back to life one tiny step at a time.

If you’re currently in the thick of grief, consider this your reminder that surviving today is enough.

🎧 Trigger warning: This episode contains discussion of sudden death, CPR, grief, trauma and bereavement.