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Danielle Crittenden: Parental Grief and Navigating an “Alternate Universe”

Danielle Crittenden: Parental Grief and Navigating an “Alternate Universe”13 aug59 min

Danielle Crittenden joins Steve to discuss her book, Dispatches from Grief: A Mother's Journey Through the Unthinkable, being deported to an “alternative universe,” her daughter Miranda’s diagnosis with a brain tumour, Miranda’s unexpected death, navigating the “bureaucracy of death,” why “everything is wrong” about parental grief, the physicality of grief, EMDR therapy, not letting grief control your days, and learning to live with the unthinkable.