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- 49. RE-RELEASE: We Were Right at the Glorious Beginning
Please enjoy this re-release of my conversation with Audrey (original episode #27)!
Audrey and I discuss:
- The shocking death of her friend in college, after just
cracking open the glorious beginning of their friendship- How hard it is to not have anyone to grieve the loss with
- The fear of complicating the family members’ grief
- Feeling gaslit by the world
- And more!
TRIGGER WARNING: The topic of suicide comes up in this conversation. So please take care of yourself, and if you or someone you know is experiencing a suicide crisis or mental health-related distress, you can call or text the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, formerly known as the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, at 988.
Get in touch:
Thank you for listening to Friends Missing Friends. If you enjoyed it, please follow/subscribe, leave stars and a review – it’s so appreciated!
You can send in your questions to [email protected], send a voice clip to our google voice number 312-291-1781, and follow us on IG @friendsmissingfriends. For more information, you can visit our website: friendsmissingfriends.com.
46 min - 48. RE-RELEASE: The Tapestry of Female Friendships
As I'm traveling and visiting friends and family, please enjoy this re-release of my interview with Jaymie, "The Tapestry of Female Friendships" (originally episode 15).
On today’s episode, my friend Jaymie and I discuss:
- What the term “best friend” means to us
- The idea of friendships being a tapestry throughout our life
- Grieving the ends of friendships and the seasons of life
- How the world often tells us our love and our emotions is “too” much
- How to support your friends when they go through dark times
- Our happiest memories with our friends
Get in touch:
Thank you for listening to Friends Missing Friends. If you enjoyed it, please follow/subscribe, leave stars and a review – it’s so appreciated!
You can send in your questions to [email protected], send a voice clip to our google voice number 312-291-1781, and follow us on IG @friendsmissingfriends. For more information, you can visit our website: friendsmissingfriends.com
34 min - 47. Mapping our grief through storytelling (Part 2)
Welcome to Part 2 of my conversation with artistic director of Green Shirt (and acting/storytelling teacher extraordinaire) Jack Schultz! (If you want to catch part 1, check out episode 46).
Today, Jack and I talk about:
- Using psychedelics to process grief
- How he has had trouble finding groups and resources for sibling loss, and I have struggled finding resources for friend loss
- How disconnected our Western society is
- Using storytelling to rewrite unhelpful or unhealthy stories that are hardwired within us
- And more!
About today’s guest Jack Schultz: Jack is an actor, teacher, and storyteller in Chicago. He’s the Artistic Director of Green Shirt Studio and former Artistic Director of The Agency where his solo show I’m Falling In Love All The Time enjoyed a sold out run on Chicago’s off-loop theatre scene. A story exploring opioid addiction through the lens of caffeine and romantic relationships, I’m Falling In Love All The Time now travels to colleges around the country to tackle stigma around substance use disorders. To find out more about Jack visit jackgschultz.com.
Resources:
Check out Green Shirt Studio in Chicago, which has acting
and storytelling classes: https://www.greenshirtstudio.com/Get in touch:
Thank you for listening to Friends Missing Friends. If you enjoyed it, please follow/subscribe, leave stars and a review – it’s so appreciated!
You can send in your questions to [email protected], send a voice clip to our google voice number 312-291-1781, and follow us on IG @friendsmissingfriends. For more information, you can visit our website: friendsmissingfriends.com.
34 min - 46. Mapping our grief through storytelling (Part 1)
Today I talk to Jack Schultz, who has been my acting and storytelling teacher in Chicago through Green Shirt Studio, and helped me to write and create my first-ever one-person show “42 Days of Summer” in 2020. That one-person show helped me to process, navigate, and share my grief after the death of my friend. Today, we talk about storytelling, and how it has helped us to map our grief over the years.
Today, Jack and I discuss:
- Jack’s play “I’m Falling In Love All The Time” and how it helped him process his grief after his brother’s death
- How storytelling helps us to see how our life (and grief) has changed over time
- The need for connection and community after loss (and how storytelling has helped us find that!)
- And more!
About today’s guest Jack Schultz: Jack is an actor, teacher,
and storyteller in Chicago. He’s the Artistic Director of Green Shirt Studio and former Artistic Director of The Agency where his solo show I’m Falling In Love All The Time enjoyed a sold out run on Chicago’s off-loop theatre scene. A story exploring opioid addiction through the lens of caffeine and romantic relationships, I’m Falling In Love All The Time now travels to colleges around the country to tackle stigma around substance use disorders. To learn more, visit jackgschultz.comResources:
Check out Green Shirt Studio in Chicago, which offers phenomenal acting and storytelling classes, and is a loving and inclusive artistic community: https://www.greenshirtstudio.com/
Get in touch:
Thank you for listening to Friends Missing Friends. If you enjoyed it, please follow/subscribe, leave stars and a review – it’s so appreciated!
You can send in your questions to [email protected], send a voice clip to our google voice number 312-291-1781, and follow us on IG @friendsmissingfriends. For more information, you can visit our website: friendsmissingfriends.com.
27 min - 45. The Holographic Heart (Part 2): honoring and remembering our friends
Welcome to Part 2 of my conversation with Suzanne Longstreet!
(If you want to catch part 1, check out episode 44).Today, my friend Suzanne and I discuss:
- Forgiving friends versus pulling away
- How we protect ourselves after loss
- How often people dismiss friend-grief
- Not every friend is going to fulfill everything (and how friends respond to different facets of us)
“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not
born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world isborn.” ― Anaïs NinAbout today's guest, Suzanne Longstreet: Suzanne Longstreet coaches high performance mindset shifts that transform six figure entrepreneur’s mindset so that they can release their inner bad ass. To learn more about Suzanne: https://www.successandclarity.com
Get in touch:
Thank you for listening to Friends Missing Friends. If you enjoyed it, please follow/subscribe, leave stars and a review – it’s so appreciated!
You can send in your questions to [email protected], send a voice clip to our google voice number 312-291-1781, and follow us on IG @friendsmissingfriends. For more information, you can visit our website: friendsmissingfriends.com.
18 min - 44. The Holographic Heart (Part 1): honoring and remembering our friends
Today, my friend Suzanne and I discuss:
- The question “Did I do enough?” after a friend passes away
- How important it is to celebrate friendship and keep your heart open after loss
- The holographic heart (our heart-mind), and how we can love multiple people with our whole heart.
- Creativity after loss
About today's guest Suzanne Longstreet: Suzanne Longstreet coaches high performance mindset shifts that transform six figure entrepreneur’s mindset so that they can release their inner bad ass. To learn more about Suzanne: https://www.successandclarity.com
Get in touch:
Thank you for listening to Friends Missing Friends. If you enjoyed it, please follow/subscribe, leave stars and a review – it’s so appreciated!
You can send in your questions to [email protected], send a voice clip to our google voice number 312-291-1781, and follow us on IG @friendsmissingfriends. For more information, you can visit our website: friendsmissingfriends.com.
24 min - 43. Picking up the scraps (Part 2): writing plays about our grief
Welcome to Part 2 of my conversation with Ian Ornstein! (If
you want to catch part 1, check out episode 42).About Ian: Ian grew up in California and moved to Chicago in 2015. He writes (plays, short stories, essays, monologues) and performs (improv in various forms) around town. Right now he's thinking about trying to move through life with less judgement and being open to the various varieties that life presents him.
To join Ian’s quarterly email list (where he shares his
creative projects and more) go here: https://mailchi.mp/f07a754c2dc2/ianornsteinquarterlysignupToday, Ian and I discuss:
- The difference between writing about a family member’s death versus a friend’s
- Book recommendations that include grieving a
friend (Perks of Being a Wallflower and In the Pockets of Small Gods)- How to be considerate but ALSO understand how we are not responsible for everyone’s feelings!
- Considering people’s privacy and feelings when writing about our grief (in his play and my memoir)
- The last moments we remember about our friends who passed
Resources:
To check out the books Ian recommended:
Perks of Being a Wallflower:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22628.The_Perks_of_Being_a_Wallflower
In the Pockets of Small Gods:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36478918-in-the-pockets-of-small-gods
Get in touch:
Thank you for listening to Friends Missing Friends. If you
enjoyed it, please follow/subscribe, leave stars and a review – it’s soappreciated!You can send in your questions to [email protected], send a voice clip to our google voice number 312-291-1781, and follow us on IG @friendsmissingfriends. For more information, you can visit our website: friendsmissingfriends.com.
38 min - 42. Picking up the scraps (Part 1): writing plays about our grief
About today’s guest, Ian Ornstein: Ian grew up in California and moved to Chicago in 2015. He writes (plays, short stories, essays, monologues) and performs (improv in various forms) around town. Right now he's thinking about trying to move through life with less judgement and being open to the various varieties that life presents him.
To join Ian’s quarterly email list (where he shares his creative projects and more) go here: https://mailchi.mp/f07a754c2dc2/ianornsteinquarterlysignup
Today, Ian and I discuss:
- The inspiration behind Ian’s play “The Virgin Death”
- The impossibility of fully honoring someone’s life
- How we do NOT believe everything happens for a
reason (instead, something horrible happens and then we pick up the scraps, hoping to make something beautiful from it)- My struggles with writing a memoir
- And so much more!
Tune in next week for Part 2 of our conversation!
Get in touch:
Thank you for listening to Friends Missing Friends. If you
enjoyed it, please follow/subscribe, leave stars and a review – it’s soappreciated!You can send in your questions to [email protected], send a voice clip to our google voice number 312-291-1781, and follow us on IG @friendsmissingfriends. For more information, you can visit our website: friendsmissingfriends.com.
33 min - 41. Flipping the script: Jaymie interviews me! (Part II)
Enjoy Part 2 of Jaymie interviewing me!
Today, Jaymie and I discuss:
- What I would say to my 23-year-old freshly grieving self
- Identifying what we need and asking for help (which can be so hard!)
- Being in that dark dark place, when it doesn't feel like it'll ever get better
- And much much more!
Get in touch:
Thank you for listening to Friends Missing Friends. If you enjoyed it, please follow/subscribe, leave stars and a review – it’s so appreciated!
You can send in your questions to [email protected], send a voice clip to our google voice number 312-291-1781, and follow us on IG @friendsmissingfriends. For more information, you can visit our website: friendsmissingfriends.com.
28 min - 40. Flipping the script: Jaymie interviews me! (Part I)
Today I thought it’d be fun to flip the script and have my good friend Jaymie (from episode 15 and 16) interview me!
Jaymie and I discuss:
- Why I created the podcast
- My grief journey (including how I’ve invalidated and gaslit my own grief!)
- The complexities of friend-grief and what I’ve learned
- What to say (and not to say) to people who are grieving
- The MYTH of the 5 stages of grief
- And much much more!
Get in touch:
Thank you for listening to Friends Missing Friends. If you enjoyed it, please follow/subscribe, leave stars and a review – it’s so appreciated!
You can send in your questions to [email protected], send a voice clip to our google voice number 312-291-1781, and follow us on IG @friendsmissingfriends. For more information, you can visit our website: friendsmissingfriends.com.
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About Friends Missing Friends
From the publisher's feed
Host Hannah Rumsey talks with those who have experienced the death of friends, grief experts, and more, to normalize the complex grief of losing a friend in a world that often doesn’t understand.…
Together we can cherish and remember the friends we miss.