Grief is one of those things that many of us still have no idea how to talk about. Whether we’ve lost someone or know someone who has lost someone it can be very uncomfortable to know what to share, when & even how to just broach the subject. This struggle is one Cariad Lloyd knows well.

After losing her dad at 15, she says she only really started to understand her grief when she was 34 and pregnant and decided to start her award winning podcast Griefcast. Running since 2016, the podcast has helped a whole host of people to process & verbalize their grief & Cariad’s book encompasses some of those lessons. Cariad is a comedian & author of You Are Not Alone.

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BOOKS You Are Not Alone

PODCASTS Griefcast The Grief Gang Good Mourning TIMESTAMPS 00:00:00 - Intro 00:01:30 - What is the grief club? 00:02:30 - Why did Cariad start Griefcast in 2016?

00:06:00 - What enabled Cariad to start to grieve?

00:08:30 - Myths about grief

00:10:30 - Victorian time limits on grief

00:12:24 - What is grief? 

00:14:20 - The physical sensations of grief

00:16:20 - How processing grief changed Cariad

00:18:19 - Grief never goes away & that’s okay

00:24:09 -  Why the 5 stages of grief are complete BS

00:30:30 - Dual process theory

00:34:00 - Why we should all be talking about death more

00:38:00 - What to say & do for someone who’s grieving

00:44:05 - The best thing to do / say if an acquaintance loses someone