Danielle Crittenden: Parental Grief and Navigating an “Alternate Universe”
About this episode
Danielle Crittenden discusses her experiences with parental grief and her book on navigating the loss of her daughter.
Danielle Crittenden joins Steve to discuss her book, Dispatches from Grief: A Mother's Journey Through the Unthinkable, being deported to an “alternative universe,” her daughter Miranda’s diagnosis with a brain tumour, Miranda’s unexpected death, navigating the “bureaucracy of death,” why “everything is wrong” about parental grief, the physicality of grief, EMDR therapy, not letting grief control your days, and learning to live with the unthinkable.
People in this episode
Host: Steve
Guest: Danielle Crittenden
Topics covered
- parental grief
- navigating loss
- brain tumour
- EMDR therapy
- bureaucracy of death
- living with grief
Keywords
- grief
- loss
- brain tumour
- EMDR therapy
- parental grief
- bureaucracy of death
- mental health
Mentioned in this episode
Books & works: Dispatches from Grief: A Mother's Journey Through the Unthinkable
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