All There Is with Anderson Cooper

Thank you Anderson for your beautiful vulnerability and courage, you have created a podcast that brings us home to our sacred life and connects us to our loving heart. You are a blessing.

For me is loss because of death only? It’s a lot more … loss of childhood, loss because of sexual abuse, loss of country, loss of self through substance abuse, loss of being abused by others, loss because my husband cheated (trust), etc. I’ve explained them all and I’m still struggling at 72, mostly through mental illness (that one I wish I could lose.

I started exploring grief after being diagnosed with clinical depression. My therapist told me I had “turned my anger inwards and it had become sadness”. I was 15 - I read C.S. Lewis’s A Grief Observed and went from there. It’s been thirty years and what I’ve learned is that grief is an enormous part of our human experience. I love hearing these stories. It reminds me we are all connected.

My dad died of Covid in Greece while his entire family was in the US. We didn't have that closure one gets when they bury a family member. I think what is hardest is that he suffered all alone and then died. I know I did't have anything to do with it but it still hurts because we tried and we couldn't leave the country. Anderson, it felt like I would never get over it but your podcast changed everything. It was exactly what I needed to break through that pain and start on the journey of healing. Thank you and keep up the good work.