About this episode

Mike and Doug discuss their experiences with grief following the loss of a close friend and explore various ways to process it.

Send us Fan Mail Mike and Doug talk about grief. After the sudden loss of a close friend, the conversation turns to the strange waves that follow death—the contractions of sadness, memory, anger, and love that move through the body if you let them. They reflect on childhood encounters with death, the different ways people grieve, and how tools like therapy, psychedelics, meditation, and music have changed their relationship to loss. Rather than something to avoid or numb, grief becomes someth...

People in this episode

Hosts: Mike, Doug

Topics covered

• grief
• loss
• therapy
• psychedelics
• meditation
• music

Keywords

• grief
• loss
• therapy
• psychedelics
• meditation
• music
• emotions
• sadness

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