52 min

126. It’s All Gonna Be Okay: Gracelyn Bateman The Death Dialogues Project Podcast

    • Documentary

Gracelyn Bateman is an author, co-founder of Luna Peak Foundation, and a grief advocate. With a background in sociology and personal experience of the sudden loss of her father, she set out to humanize the taboo topic of grief through photography and storytelling. Her mission is to help people not feel alone in their grief. Her latest book Beyond Grief shares 80 grief photographs, mementos, and stories to show how others process and navigate their life after loss. Her work at Luna Peak uplifts multicultural survivor stories and gives survivors a safe platform to share. She was born and raised in Southern California and loves to hike and play the ukulele with her grandfather.


LINKS:
https://www.lunapeakfoundation.org/ (find books there)
Instagram: @lunapeakfoundation

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Thanks for being here! Please consider subscribing and rating The Death Dialogues Project Podcast to help us get these episodes in front of folks who need them. The book Death and its Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Beautiful Lessons: field notes from The Death Dialogues Project is on sale everywhere you buy your books. Here's one link: https://tinyurl.com/2p9c25rt As the Kiwis say, this project runs on the smell of an oily rag (read: no income or funding)-- the purchase of the very affordable book will go towards costs for running this project. "Just finished this wonderful resource by Becky Aud-Jennison called, Death and Its Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Beautiful Lessons. If you have any desire to learn the effects the death of a loved one has on us, read this book. It is one of those lovely books that combines story, science and the experience of the author to illuminate a profound topic in an understandable way." - Jennifer A. O'Brien, author of Hospice Doctor's Widow


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Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/deathdialogues/message

Gracelyn Bateman is an author, co-founder of Luna Peak Foundation, and a grief advocate. With a background in sociology and personal experience of the sudden loss of her father, she set out to humanize the taboo topic of grief through photography and storytelling. Her mission is to help people not feel alone in their grief. Her latest book Beyond Grief shares 80 grief photographs, mementos, and stories to show how others process and navigate their life after loss. Her work at Luna Peak uplifts multicultural survivor stories and gives survivors a safe platform to share. She was born and raised in Southern California and loves to hike and play the ukulele with her grandfather.


LINKS:
https://www.lunapeakfoundation.org/ (find books there)
Instagram: @lunapeakfoundation

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Thanks for being here! Please consider subscribing and rating The Death Dialogues Project Podcast to help us get these episodes in front of folks who need them. The book Death and its Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Beautiful Lessons: field notes from The Death Dialogues Project is on sale everywhere you buy your books. Here's one link: https://tinyurl.com/2p9c25rt As the Kiwis say, this project runs on the smell of an oily rag (read: no income or funding)-- the purchase of the very affordable book will go towards costs for running this project. "Just finished this wonderful resource by Becky Aud-Jennison called, Death and Its Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Beautiful Lessons. If you have any desire to learn the effects the death of a loved one has on us, read this book. It is one of those lovely books that combines story, science and the experience of the author to illuminate a profound topic in an understandable way." - Jennifer A. O'Brien, author of Hospice Doctor's Widow


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Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/deathdialogues/message

52 min