Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with immersive installation artist, puppet-fabricator, & children’s book author Madison Girifalco, while they talk about grief, community connection, & support in her life & work with Holding Space, an art installation designed to acknowledge grief in community using immersive art & puppetry.

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“Lunch Breaks w/Holding Space” on IG LIVE @holdingspaceLA, Monday, Wednesday & Friday at 12:30 PST: https://www.instagram.com/holdingspacela/

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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with Erika Wright, while they talk about the story, the plant medicine, the spiritual path, that led to their self-appointed work as a codependency counselor, our society's relationship to grief & vulnerability, & how we've been programmed to avoid hard feelings & the truth behind them.

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Co-Dependents Anonymous: https://coda.org/

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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with Adam Jackson, Sacred Sons cofounder, Chief Visionary Officer, & the host of Sacred Sons Podcast, while they talk about how his lineage of loss & suicide led to his work with Sacred Sons, processing grief & anger with men, community building & purpose fueled by our mortality.

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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with musician, visual/performance artist, & poet Andy the Doorbum, while they talk about his father's death process that inspired his new album, "OF TEARS, NO AMOUNT CAN QUENCH MOUTHS MAIMED BY DROUGHT," & how the album morphed into a grieving for the world & its current troubles.

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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with Frank Ostaseski - internationally respected Buddhist teacher, visionary cofounder of the Zen Hospice Project, & founder of the Metta Institute - while they talk about remaining vulnerably present in service of patients, how we should let our tears run instead of hiding them, & moving beyond the idea of a good death.

This conversation originally aired July 8th, 2021.

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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with author & editor Michelle Tea, while they talk about the story of her writing onto stage, her history running -feminist spoken-word & performance art collective Sister Spit, & the “mental illness” of writing & why it matters for our lives, our trauma, our healing.

Thanks to Beth Pickens for the “Death & God” chapter in her book Make Your Art No Matter What which offered a fitting launching off point for this conversation.

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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with writer, activist, & facilitator adrienne maree brown, while they talk about what's possible in our response to the world's atrocious injustices, how to make our heart soft & expanded & not let it shrink to the size of our oppressors, & in light of the fact that we're all going to die, we can live more fully, freely, & start operating together as the shared living organism we actually are.

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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with Katrina Spade, founder & CEO of Recompose, a Public Benefit Corporation based in Seattle & the world’s first human composting company, while they talk about her work with Recompose, the history that led to it, & the option of returning our bodies to the earth via composting.

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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with best-selling author, psychotherapist, & grief advocate Megan Devine, while they talk about how it’s okay that it’s not okay, the complicated case of Prolonged Grief Disorder, & how the work of other people’s grief might impact us & what’s required to keep doing it.

This episode originally aired April 14th, 2022.

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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with lifelong activist, revolutionary, thought leader, & psychic survivor Joshua Rose O’Hara, while they talk about their vastly varying experience with dying loved ones & ceremonies for those dead, their work protecting & expanding reproductive rights in Alaska, & their near death [or just plain dying] with producer Nick Jaina in collision with a pregnant cow.

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