Coffee, Grief, And Gratitude

Coffee And Grief
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Coffee, Grief, And Gratitude

Anne Gudger and Maria Gibson are widening the grief conversation, talking about the things we don’t normally take the time to talk about. We’ll hear different people’s grief stories and talk with them about their experience of grief throughout their lives. We get learn new things every time. We’re here to ask questions, not prescribe answers. We’re not experts in your grief. We’ll hear stories about death, sickness, politics, dementia, loss of youth, loss of self. Anne Gudger’s memoir, THE FIFTH CHAMBER is out now. Follow her at: Annegudger.com. Find us on FB at Coffee and Grief Community.

  1. 5D AGO

    Coffee Talk #68 April 2025

    We’re delighted to bring you our recent Coffee Talk #68 from April 2025. We hope these five phenomenal writers/readers/humans and their stories are just what your heart needs today. We bring you Annie Carl, Jen Violi, Nikki Darling, Nynke Salverda Passi, and Mary Mandeville. Enjoy! Thank you for letting us be in your ears. Coffee, Grief and Gratitude is created by Anne Gudger and Maria Gibson, a mom/daughter duo who talk about grief.    You can find them on Facebook at Coffee and Grief. Please join their private Facebook page: Coffee and Grief Community.   You can also email Anne and Maria at: coffeeandgrief@gmail.com   Anne’s memoir, THE FIFTH CHAMBER, a memoir of loss and love, is available wherever you get your books.   Once you’ve read THE FIFTH CHAMBER, Anne would be so grateful if you’d share your honest thoughts on Amazon and Goodreads. Thank you for taking a few minutes to review!   We’d love you to like and share the podcast!

    48 min

  2. APR 8

    Incorporating Rituals With Shara Ruffin

    Grab your coffee and come listen to this tender conversation with Shara Ruffin who talks about becoming comfortable with grief being part of life. She tells us some of the rituals she’s made part of her life since her daughter died and her mom-in-law too. She shares how important ritual is to stay connected to her beloveds. As a griever, as a human, she holds the fragility of life, embraces that grief is a process you engage with differently over time, and knows we all will eventually take our last breath. Shara says, “The only thing that’s left is the memory of you.”      Shara is an independently licensed clinical social worker and former psychotherapist from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She holds a Bachelor's degree in social work from Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania and a Master's degree in social work from Howard University School of Social Work. Shara has specializations in grief, personality disorders, family trauma, compassion fatigue, military counseling, mindfulness meditation, ADHD, and anxiety. Shara is a Board Certified Tele-mental Health Provider. She’s the author of two journals: 90 Day of Inspiration: Study Companion for Social Workers Taking Their Licensing Exam and 90 Day Prayer Journal: A Journal for Social Workers.     Thank you for letting us be in your ears.   Coffee, Grief and Gratitude is created by Anne Gudger and Maria Gibson, a mom/daughter duo who talk about grief.    You can find them on Facebook at Coffee and Grief. Please join their private Facebook page: Coffee and Grief Community.   You can also email Anne and Maria at: coffeeandgrief@gmail.com   Anne’s memoir, THE FIFTH CHAMBER, a memoir of loss and love, is available wherever you get your books.   Once you’ve read THE FIFTH CHAMBER, Anne would be so grateful if you’d share your honest thoughts on Amazon and Goodreads. Thank you for taking a few minutes to review!   We’d love you to like and share the podcast!

    37 min

  3. APR 3

    Coffee Talk #44: March 2023

    We’re delighted to bring you Coffee Talk #44 from March 2023. We hope these five phenomenal writers/readers/humans and their stories are just what your heart needs today. We bring you Carmel Breathnach, Jason Arias, Jessica Rich, Jill Deasy, and Rebecca Daniels. Enjoy!    Thank you for letting us be in your ears.   Coffee, Grief and Gratitude is created by Anne Gudger and Maria Gibson, a mom/daughter duo who talk about grief.    You can find them on Facebook at Coffee and Grief. Please join their private Facebook page: Coffee and Grief Community.   You can also email Anne and Maria at: coffeeandgrief@gmail.com   Anne’s memoir, THE FIFTH CHAMBER, a memoir of loss and love, is available wherever you get your books.   Once you’ve read THE FIFTH CHAMBER, Anne would be so grateful if you’d share your honest thoughts on Amazon and Goodreads. Thank you for taking a few minutes to review!   We’d love you to like and share the podcast!

    48 min

  4. MAR 31

    Grief Up Close and the Long View with Pamela Gwyn Kripke

    Pamela reads her essay that she says is partially the eulogy she should have written/shared about her father and didn’t. She braids some sweet childhood memories with her last memories of her dad. In moving through her grief, she tells us: “The rough emotions have taken a back seat to the good ones.” And her message to her younger self is to “accept each step of it. You don’t know the steps. And however you’re feeling, it’s all okay.”   Pamela Gwyn Kripke is a journalist and author whose writing has appeared in publications including The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Chicago Sun-Times, The Dallas Morning News, The Huffington Post, Slate and Salon. Her novel, At the Seams, received the Arch Street Press First Chapter Award, and her new short story collection, And Then You Apply Ice, was a Finalist in the 2024 American Fiction Awards. Pamela’s fiction and creative nonfiction have been published in numerous literary magazines. Born in Manhattan, she got married in New York, had baby girls in Boston, was divorced in Texas and currently lives outside Philadelphia. She self-published a memoir called Girl Without a Zipcode. https://pamelagwynkripke.com/   Thank you for letting us be in your ears.   Coffee, Grief and Gratitude is created by Anne Gudger and Maria Gibson, a mom/daughter duo who talk about grief.    You can find them on Facebook at Coffee and Grief. Please join their private Facebook page: Coffee and Grief Community.   You can also email Anne and Maria at: coffeeandgrief@gmail.com   Anne’s memoir, THE FIFTH CHAMBER, a memoir of loss and love, is available wherever you get your books.   Once you’ve read THE FIFTH CHAMBER, Anne would be so grateful if you’d share your honest thoughts on Amazon and Goodreads. Thank you for taking a few minutes to review!   We’d love you to like and share the podcast!

    42 min

  5. MAR 27

    Coffee Talk #43: February 2023

    We’re delighted to bring you Coffee Talk #43 from February 2023. We hope these four phenomenal writers/readers/humans and their stories are just what your heart needs today. We bring you Amy Kortuem, Annie Gudger, Gayle Brandeis, and  MJ Atamian. Enjoy!  Thank you for letting us be in your ears.   Coffee, Grief and Gratitude is created by Anne Gudger and Maria Gibson, a mom/daughter duo who talk about grief.    You can find them on Facebook at Coffee and Grief. Please join their private Facebook page: Coffee and Grief Community.   You can also email Anne and Maria at: coffeeandgrief@gmail.com   Anne’s memoir, THE FIFTH CHAMBER, a memoir of loss and love, is available wherever you get your books.   Once you’ve read THE FIFTH CHAMBER, Anne would be so grateful if you’d share your honest thoughts on Amazon and Goodreads. Thank you for taking a few minutes to review!   We’d love you to like and share the podcast!

    37 min

  6. MAR 24

    All That Matters is Love with Casey Mulligan Walsh

    Casey reads from her gorgeous new memoir: The Full Catastrophe: All I Ever Wanted, Everything I Feared. She talks about her many griefs that could have undone her, and how, while we can never be prepared for major loss, her early experiences with loss helped carry her through later ones. She shares how she’s grown through grief. Her compassion for herself and others shines through our entire conversation.      Casey Mulligan Walsh writes about life at the intersection of grief and joy, embracing uncertainty, and the nature of true belonging. Her memoir, The Full Catastrophe: All I Ever Wanted, Everything I Feared, was published with Motina Books, February 2025. She has written for The New York Times, HuffPost, Next Avenue, Modern Loss, Hippocampus, Barren, and numerous other literary magazines. Casey’s essay, “Still,” published in Split Lip, was nominated for Best of the Net. She is a founding editor of In a Flash literary magazine. She also serves as an ambassador for the Family Heart Foundation, an organization dedicated to raising awareness of the genetic lipid disorder that has affected her family across generations.  Casey lives in upstate New York with her husband, Kevin, a chatty orange tabby, and too many books to count. Learn more at www.caseymulliganwalsh.com.   Thank you for letting us be in your ears.   Coffee, Grief and Gratitude is created by Anne Gudger and Maria Gibson, a mom/daughter duo who talk about grief.    You can find them on Facebook at Coffee and Grief. Please join their private Facebook page: Coffee and Grief Community.   You can also email Maria and Anne at: coffeeandgrief@gmail.com   Anne’s memoir, THE FIFTH CHAMBER, a memoir of loss and love, is available wherever you get your books.   Once you’ve read THE FIFTH CHAMBER, Anne would be so grateful if you’d share your honest thoughts on Amazon and Goodreads. Thank you for taking a few minutes to review!   We’d love you to like and share the podcast!

    48 min

  7. MAR 22

    Coffee Talk #46: May 2023, A Reading Honoring Harvey

    We’re delighted to bring you Coffee Talk #46 from May 2023. It’s a special reading, honoring Harvey, Monica’s infant son who died days after he was born. We’re honored to support Monica in these yearly readings, to keep talking about Harvey who has touched so many lives. We hope these five phenomenal writers/readers/humans and their stories are just what your heart needs today. We bring you:  Anat LeBlanc, Anne Richardson, Blix Aviv, Julie Serafina, andTracy Rose Stamper.   If you’d like to donate to the scholarship fund in Harvey’s honor that Monica mentions, here’s the link: https://www.givecampus.com/campaigns/7956/donations/new?udac=EONLINEFORM   Thank you for letting us be in your ears.   Coffee, Grief and Gratitude is a created by Anne Gudger and Maria Gibson, a mom/daughter duo who talk about grief.    You can find them on Facebook at Coffee and Grief. Please join their private Facebook page: Coffee and Grief Community.   You can also email Anne and Maria at: coffeeandgrief@gmail.com   Anne’s memoir, THE FIFTH CHAMBER, a memoir of loss and love, is available wherever you get your books.   Once you’ve read THE FIFTH CHAMBER, Anne would be so grateful if you’d share your honest thoughts on Amazon and Goodreads. Thank you for taking a few minutes to review!   We’d love you to like and share the podcast!

    1h 1m

  8. MAR 18

    Pedaling Hard with Ronit Plank

    Season Two Episode Thirteen   Pedaling Hard with Ronit Plank   Ronit Plank reads from her fabulous memoir: WHEN SHE COMES BACK and talks about her grief of losing her mom, her family, and her sense of self. She shares gems about writing memoir along with talking about how all of her family relationships have evolved, how healing has come through writing and having honest conversations. She reminds us all that “your story matters.”    Ronit is a writer, teacher, and editor who hosts the podcast Let’s Talk Memoir. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, The Rumpus, The New York Times, The Iowa Review, Hippocampus, The Washington Post, Writer’s Digest, American Literary Review, and elsewhere. Her memoir WHEN SHE COMES BACK, about the loss of her mother to the guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and their eventual reconciliation was named Finalist in the 2021 Housatonic Awards, the 2021 Indie Excellence Awards, and was a 2021 Book Riot Best True Crime Book. Her short story collection HOME IS A MADE-UP PLACE won Hidden River Arts’ 2020 Eludia Award and the 2023 Page Turner Awards for Short Stories. She earned an MFA in Nonfiction Writing at Pacific University, speaks on and teaches memoir writing, and is Creative Nonfiction Editor at The Citron Review. You can find out more at ronitplank.com Her Substack: https://substack.com/@ronitplank?utm_source=profile-page Her Instagram: @RonitPlank   Thank you for letting us be in your ears.   Coffee, Grief and Gratitude is a created by Anne Gudger and Maria Gibson, a mom/daughter duo who talk about grief.    You can find them on Facebook at Coffee and Grief. Please join their private Facebook page: Coffee and Grief Community.   You can also email Anne and Maria at: coffeeandgrief@gmail.com   Anne’s memoir, THE FIFTH CHAMBER, a memoir of loss and love, is available wherever you get your books.   Once you’ve read THE FIFTH CHAMBER, Anne would be so grateful if you’d share your honest thoughts on Amazon and Goodreads. Thank you for taking a few minutes to review!   We’d love you to like and share the podcast!

    48 min
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Anne Gudger and Maria Gibson are widening the grief conversation, talking about the things we don’t normally take the time to talk about. We’ll hear different people’s grief stories and talk with them about their experience of grief throughout their lives. We get learn new things every time. We’re here to ask questions, not prescribe answers. We’re not experts in your grief. We’ll hear stories about death, sickness, politics, dementia, loss of youth, loss of self. Anne Gudger’s memoir, THE FIFTH CHAMBER is out now. Follow her at: Annegudger.com. Find us on FB at Coffee and Grief Community.

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  • Creator
    Coffee And Grief
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2025
  • Episodes
    78
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    Explicit
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