In this enlightening episode of the Teaching Journeys Podcast, host Dave Roberts engages in an inspiring conversation with Emily Thiroux Threatt, an accomplished author and the founder of the Grief and Happiness Alliance. Emily shares her life journey that includes dealing with grief and loss and how she transformed these experiences into a powerful mission of helping others navigate through their grief. She discusses how she infuses principles of happiness, gratitude, and journaling into her grief work and also introduces her intriguing book 'Loving and Living Your Way Through Grief'. This podcast provides valuable insights into the power of human resilience and the possibility of finding happiness even amidst grief.

Emily's Bio and Contact Information

Emily has much experience with the grieving process having dealt with the death of two husbands, as well as the deaths of her father, mother, sister, and many aunts, uncles, and friends. Through all this, she learned to face life with love, optimism, and joy.

She has kept journals and written to express herself most of her life. This led her to a career of teaching writing at the university level and writing textbooks. After her husbands died, she naturally turned to writing to help deal with her grief. Then she discovered that she could use her writing to help others deal with grief too. She created an online group to guide people through the ways writing provides comfort.

Emily wrote the book Loving and Living Your Way Through Grief: A Comprehensive Guide to Reclaiming and Cultivating Joy and Carrying on in the Face of Loss which provides guidance for navigating the downs and ups of that unfamiliar territory.

She felt something was missing in the work she was doing, and through the inspiration of author Marci Shimoff, she recognized the importance of helping people discover how allowing happiness to coexist with grief is essential. She created the popular podcast Grief and Happiness, but she knew she wanted to do more.

To help provide comfort, support, love, and happiness to those dealing with grief and loss, she founded the Grief and Happiness Alliance.

Emily retired on the beautiful island of Maui in Hawaii after a rich and varied career of teaching writing and owning and operating business ranging from an ambulance company to a live theatre, to a school of arts and more.

Griefandhappiness.com (Personal Website)

LivingandLovingYourWayThroughGrief.com (Book Website)

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