When Grief Remakes You

About this episode

Allie Kramer discusses her experience of grief and transformation following her son's terminal cancer diagnosis.

In 2023, Allie Kramer’s three-year-old son Theo was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer. In the months and years that followed Theo’s diagnosis, Allie tried to keep a steel grip on her “old” life. Until she realized that that life didn’t exist anymore. This week, Allie joins Maya to talk about what it means to survive something that changes you so completely, you cannot go back to who you were. For more on the topic of grief, we recommend this one from our archive:  “Lessons from A Grief Therapist.”   Find Allie’s podcast, “Worst Club Ever” wherever you get your podcasts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

People in this episode

Host: Maya

Guest: Allie Kramer

Topics covered

• grief
• loss
• parenting
• cancer
• identity
• survival

Keywords

• grief
• cancer
• parenting
• identity
• loss
• survival
• Allie Kramer

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Worst Club Ever, Pushkin Industries

Books & works: Lessons from A Grief Therapist

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