What if grief didn't have to be something you move through alone even when it feels like no one else could possibly understand what you're carrying?

On this episode of Office Ours, Dr. Miriam sits down with Rebecca Soffer to talk about what it really means to show up for someone who's grieving and what it means to let people show up for you. Rebecca is the co-founder of Modern Loss, a Peabody Award-winning former producer for The Colbert Report, and the bestselling author of The Modern Loss Handbook. After losing both of her parents before 33, she stopped waiting for the world to talk about grief differently and built a community to do it herself.

They get into why "let me know if there's anything I can do" almost never lands, the dinner conversation that sparked Modern Loss, and why grief isn’t a straight line, it’s a wave you learn to surf. Rebecca shares why laughing at the bat-sh*t crazy parts of loss could be what gets you through, the difference between giving someone space and creating distance, and why the loneliest experiences in life are often the ones with the most power to bring us together.

This one is for anyone who has loved and lost... Which, eventually, is all of us.

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Two Peas on a Pod is hosted by Dr. Miriam Kirmayer. Executive produced by Zoe Travis, Matthew Hoffman, Katya Kaminsky, and Dr. Miriam Kirmayer. Produced and edited by Podcast Nation (Producers: Madison Brit and Alesha Pannier, Audio Engineer: Miles Carter). Original music by Sarah Walk. Created by Zoe Travis and Matthew Hoffman. Two Peas on a Pod is recorded in Montreal and Los Angeles. Cover photo by Katya Kaminsky

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