Life after Losing a Parent: Grief’s Gifts with Andy Chaleff

About this episode

Andy Chaleff discusses the coexistence of grief and beauty, exploring how to embrace mortality and find meaning in loss.

What might we find when we embrace grief rather than turn away from it? Can bereavement and beauty co-exist? And how can we navigate our fear of death? From existential overwhelm to the therapeutic powers of writing, psychedelics, and connecting with strangers, author of Dying to Live: Finding Life’s Meaning through Death Andy Chaleff—whose mother died in a drunk driving accident hours after he gave her a soul-baring letter—discusses befriending mortality and the silver lining of sorrow.&nbsp...

People in this episode

Host: Sean Jeung

Guest: Andy Chaleff

Topics covered

• grief
• bereavement
• death
• existentialism
• writing
• psychedelics
• connection

Keywords

• grief
• loss
• death
• psychedelics
• writing
• bereavement
• existentialism

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Dying to Live: Finding Life’s Meaning through Death

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