Great Grief

Great Grief

By Nnenna FreelonSociety & CultureArtsPersonal JournalsPerforming Arts
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Great Grief episodes

  • Great Grief Holiday Special
    For many people, holidays are a time of celebration marked by family, faith, and food.
    This time of year can also be a period of remembrance. Yes, grief has a seat at the table. But grieving in the holiday season doesn’t have to be a solo or solemn affair. In this special, Nnenna invites you into her home for live music and an uplifting conversation with some of her closest friends that explores loss, love, and how to move forward with grief during the holidays.
    51 min
  • When Grief speaks...
    Nnenna’s gotten well-acquainted with grief in the past three years… so much so that it often feels like she’s in conversation with her. When Nnenna talks to Grief, Grief talks back. In this episode, we hear from the voice of Grief herself… and she’s got a lot on her mind.
    34 min
  • Hairstory
    Grief is held in the body – including in our hair. For Black women, hair holds a lot: identity, memory, sexual allure and yes… grief. In this episode, Nnenna reflects on growing up in a beauty salon that her mother and her sister co-owned and tells a story about the complex relationship between loss and hair.
    36 min
  • Sister, Sister
    Six months after losing her husband Phil in 2019, Nnenna also lost her only sister, Debbie. It’s taken her a long time to process what that second, equally devastating loss has meant to her. In this episode, she tells the story of her sister’s life with breathtaking tenderness and love and explores what it means to be a sister.
    46 min
  • Falling
    Fall is a season of transformation and loss. Leaves fall, preparing for the long winter and the rebirth awaiting us all on the other side. In this episode, Nnenna contemplates falling as she returns to a once-familiar place for her and her late husband Phil: the Duke Cross-Country Course.
    38 min
  • Great Grief Season 2 Trailer
    Combining music with powerful storytelling and interviews, Great Grief is an exploration of the changes to body, mind, and spirit that occur when we experience loss. New episodes of this award-winning show from host Nnenna Freelon and WUNC return to your podcast feed weekly starting on November 17.
    7 min
  • The World Since You Left
    How do we send messages across The Great Divide? In the final episode of Season 1, Nnenna and Phil try to communicate with each other in the same way that they've always loved each other: beyond space and time.
    36 min
  • A Stitch In Time
    A visit to her dear friend, master quilter Marjorie Diggs Freeman, inspires Nnenna to piece together her own story quilt of love and loss and reflect on the significance of rest while wrestling with grief. | Learn more at greatgrief.com
    29 min
  • Ashes To Ashes
    Nnenna calls on the wisdom of a Black woman hemp farmer and makes new discoveries about grief and growth. | Learn more at greatgrief.com.
    32 min
  • Oatmeal
    Though every meal feels different without her husband Phil, breakfast is the hardest in the months following his passing. Nnenna reclaims the most important meal of the day with a little help from an underrated pantry staple. | Love this podcast? Support it with a donation at wunc.org/give.
    15 min

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A podcast about loving greatly through grief WITH NNENNA FREELON.