"I believed I wanted to be a poet, but deep down, I just wanted to be a poem."
-Jaime Gil de Biedma
I was honored to be the first guest for Season Two of All There Is with Anderson Cooper. We spoke about many matters close to the soul. I hope you find the conversation supportive of your own encounters with sorrow and loss. Here is the write-up for the episode:
Grief doesn’t just go away, no matter how hard we may want it to. So how can we live with it and learn from it? These are the questions Anderson Cooper struggles to answer after the first season of All There Is ends. Anderson spends months playing more than 1000 unheard voicemail messages about grief from podcast listeners, and once again finds himself in his basement surrounded by boxes, full of letters, photos and objects that belonged to his late father, mother, and brother. He also talks with psychotherapist and author Francis Weller, whose book “The Wild Edge of Sorrow” gives him hope.
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The image below was created by Sherrill Knezel. It is a beautiful and vibrant depiction of my conversation with Anderson. I am very grateful for this additional way of entering into the material. Sherrill's work can be found at www.meaningfulmarks.net
Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with psychotherapist, writer, & soul activist Francis Weller, talking about the saturation of sorrow we’re faced with in these times - & how we might trust, befriend, & accompany our grief with slow encounters, to return with medicine for our community, as we more wholly & fully renter LIFE.
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