Katie Cosgrove experienced the death of someone close to her every year between the ages of 15 and 21. The first was her father, who died of brain encephalitis. For the next five years, Katie did what so many teens do - she didn’t talk about her grief. Until she did. Now, she's the founder of Grief is Good and the author of new children's book, "I'll see you in your dreams tonight," which invites children (and adults too) to find ways to make new memories with their person who died.
We discuss:
What Katie needed when her dad died and how that changed over time
Why she stopped talking about her dad and how she learned to start again
The nonverbal ways she started to engage with grief
How her dad’s death shaped who she is
Living a death-centered life
How she continues to make new memories with her dad
What it will mean to make a hole in one on the golf course someday
Ep. 109: Motherless Daughters, 25 Years Later - Hope Edelman & Brennan Wood
Ep: 108: What Does Forgiveness Feel Like? Judith Finneren
Ep. 107: Remembrance Wardrobe - Nicole Leslie
Ep. 106: Grief & Anxiety - Claire Bidwell Smith. LCPC
Ep. 105: Appetizers, Grief, Dessert - The Dinner Party
Ep. 104: Grief & Work - Alica Forneret
Ep. 103: Staying Connected In Grief - Allison Gilbert
Ep. 102: The Power Of Storytelling
Ep. 101: Grief, Seven Decades Later
Ep. 100: It's A Grief Party!
Ep. 99: It's So Much More Than What We Can See - Doreen Wiggins, MD
Ep. 98: Under Pressure - Holidays & Grief
Ep. 97: An Unexpected Devastation
Ep. 96: Dear Me, A Mini-Episode
Ep. 95: Witnessing A Stranger's Death
Ep. 94: Conflicted Grief - Jan Canty, PhD
Ep. 93: Grief & Transformation - Phelica Glass, LSCSW
Ep. 92: Grief At School
Ep. 91: What's Changed For Grieving Children? The 1950's
Ep. 90: What I Needed - Tips From A Grieving Teen
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