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This week on Here After with Megan Devine: A Place Called Home: a conversation with child welfare advocate, David Ambroz The scene is 1990’s New York City. Young David Ambroz and his two siblings are homeless, sleeping in bus shelters and bathing in public restrooms, under the care of his mentally ill mother. The…
This week on Here After with Megan Devine: Complex PTSD and the art of survival with author Stephanie Foo If you’ve lived through horrific trauma or abuse, is it really fair of us to say that the ways you’ve learned to cope are “bad,” or to use clinical speak, “maladaptive”? This week on…
How does public mourning help us? POPSUGAR examines collective grief and how to hold space for someone whose grief looks different than yours. Feeling like we’re sharing an experience — joy or mourning — is a very powerful thing. We need to be seen by and see each other. Collective grief is something most of us are…
This week on Here After with Megan Devine: Sometimes loss is freedom: a conversation with Rebecca Woolf What if you were just about to get divorced, but your partner gets sick? Like really sick? Rebecca Woolf was just about to leave an unhappy marriage when her husband got sick and died. What followed was…
This week on Here After with Megan Devine: Resilience, Resources, and Grieving in the Public Eye With Gun Violence Survivor and Advocate, Nelba Márquez-Greene “I’m for survivors surviving.” – Nelba Márquez-Greene Nelba Márquez-Greene is a marriage and family therapist, and she’s an advocate for survivors of tragedy. What her official bio doesn’t say is…
This week on Here After with Megan Devine: Welcome to the awkward party, everyone: it’s season 2, episode 1 There’s a lot going on lately – which is a massive understatement. In our personal lives and as a wider community – everything is a lot. It’s a really human thing to hope things will…
With August mostly behind us, we now shift into the start of the school year. The back to school season can be especially painful as you watch other kids go off to school or send your grieving child back to school without their sibling or without your partner by your side. It’s also very hard…
We’re back! Welcome to the awkward party, everyone: Here After is the podcast where every conversation centers on difficult things (like love and loss and illness and the state of the world, among other things). Doesn’t that sound like fun? Okay, if you were with me for season one, you KNOW it actually is fun…
