Episode 146: Grief, Feldon, and Ryan Sainio

CW: Grief, Death

Hello, Podwalkers, and welcome back to another episode of the Goblin Lore

Podcast! May is Mental Health Awareness Month and the plan is for all the

episodes this month to relate to important topics within Mental Health. We are

also participating (along with other excellent creators) in #MentalHealthMtG and

attempting to raise money for MH Organizations!!

Earlier Hobbes put out a call

[https://twitter.com/HobbesQ/status/1516426608957079552] for Magic Story related

to Grief and people answered with everything from storylines (Feldon

[https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/arcana/lorans-smile-2014-10-27],

Ajani, Kamahl) to Flavor Texts to Card Names to Art. Grief is a tough topic to

tackle and we had previously reached out to our friend (and fellow Hipster of

the Coaster?) Ryan Sainio [https://twitter.com/RyanSainio] about finally doing

an episode. He has been open about the loss of his sister and today he discusses

his personal journey with grief (he has touched on it in a scripted audio drama

[https://sainiocast.libsyn.com/episode-331-remember]). This also leads to an

examination of the Stages of Grief popularized across Media and why they might

not

[https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/supersurvivors/201707/why-the-five-stages-grief-are-wrong]

be the best way to discuss this difficult process.

Again we would like to state that Black Lives Matter

[https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/] (with a link to where you can offer

support both monetary and not).

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As promised, we plan to keep these Mental Health Links available moving forward

too. For general Mental Health the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)

[https://nami.org/Home] has great resources for people struggling with mental

health concerns as well as their families. We also want to draw attention to

this article

[https://www.nami.org/blogs/nami-blog/october-2017/9-ways-to-fight-mental-health-stigma] on

stigma from NAMI's site.

If you're thinking about suicide or just need someone to talk to right now, you

can get support from any of the resources below.

* National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 

[https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/]1-800-273-TALK (8255)

* Veteran's can Press 1 at anytime to be taken to the Veteran's Line

* Crisis Text Line:  [https://www.crisistextline.org/]Text HOME to 741-741