Best of 2019 from the Widowed Parent Podcast
“We have to choose what the next steps look like. What the next days, weeks, months, years, what the next decade really looks like. And it’s kind of a two sided coin. I mean, as much as we would want to erase these changes of the past decade, erase what happened, wave a magic wand and restore things to the way they were at the start of the decade — the fact is, we can’t do that, no matter how badly we want to. So that means we have to choose what “next” looks like. And the flip side of the coin is we get to choose what “next” looks like. It’s a burden and an opportunity. All of us are in a life we didn’t choose, and now we get to choose what’s next.”
— Jenny Lisk
This week’s show — January 1, 2020 — is the “Best of 2019” episode. Listen for reflections on decades past and the decade ahead, as well as what I’m looking forward to for the podcast in 2020. Also join me as a share clips from six favorite episodes this year, with guests Austin Shoecraft, Claire Bidwell Smith, Allison Gilbert, Lane Pease, Jessica Maitland Mayo & Micki Burns, and Dr. Lisa Damour. Also mentioned: interviews with Buffy Peters & Sasha Mudlaff, Dr. Justin Yopp, Tembi Locke, Vicki Jay, and Karen Millsap.
Links & resources for this episode
Episodes:
Episode 7 - Austin Shoecraft on losing his dad at age 11
Episode 49 - Claire Bidwell Smith on Anxiety & Grief
Episode 35 - Allison Gilbert on keeping the memories of our loved ones alive
Episode 11 - Lane Pease from Kate’s Club on building resilience in kids after loss
Episode 43 - Jessica Maitland Mayo and Micki Burns on programs and research at Judi's House
Episode 13 - Dr. Lisa Damour on parenting teenage girls
Episode 40 - Buffy Peters and Sasha Mudlaff from Hamilton's Academy of Grief and Loss with advice for parents on children's grief
Episode 39 - Dr. Justin Yopp, co-author of The Group: Seven Widowed Fathers Reimagine Life
Episode 32 - Actor & author Tembi Locke on food, grief, widowed parenting, and her beautiful new memoir
Episode 42 - Vicki Jay from the National Alliance for Grieving Children
Episode 46 - Part 2 - Special one-year anniversary episode: Karen Millsap interviews Jenny Lisk
Books:
Passed and Present: Keeping Memories of Loved Ones Alive, by Allison Gilbert
The Group: Seven Widowed Fathers Reimagine Life, by Dr. Justin Yopp
From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home, by Tembi Locke
Untangled: Guiding Teenage Girls Through the Seven Transitions into Adulthood, by Dr. Lisa Damour
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