Gina talks about the complexities of grief, how grief is the great equalizer, and how we can be clumsy and awkward together.

She shares how she wrote her book, Moving On Doesn’t Mean Letting go: a Modern Guide to Navigating Loss. She wanted to reach more people than she could in her practice and make grief work accessible to many. Her book is an amazing resource that we highly recommend.

Gina is a licensed psychotherapist, mental health educator, and media consultant in New York City. In practice for nearly two decades, she has helped thousands of people seeking treatment for trauma, grief, as well as challenging life experiences and transitions.As a grief therapist, she wanted to find a way to educate people about the grief experience to help the experience to be less debilitating for the long term. With that intention, she wrote the book, Moving On Doesn't Mean Letting go: A Modern Guide to Navigating Loss (Hachette), which has been quoted in international publications, such as Forbes and USA Today, as well as NPR. Gina is working on her next book, a book that will explore friendship loss and the importance of sustaining and nurturing friendship.

https://ginamoffa.com

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Coffee, Grief and Gratitude is a created by Anne Gudger and Maria Gibson, a mom/daughter duo who talk about grief.

You can find them on Facebook at Coffee and Grief. Please join their private Facebook page: Coffee and Grief Community.

Their next 30day writing group, Write Your Grief Out, is coming in October.

You can also email Anne and Maria at: coffeeandgrief@gmail.com

Anne’s memoir, THE FIFTH CHAMBER, a memoir of loss and love, is available wherever you get your books.

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Robin reads an essay that was published in Narratively about becoming a widow while she was in the process of getting divorced. Her essay opens up questions about how we navigate griefs that don’t fit in any boxes. Robin’s almost ex-husband had a girlfriend and they were planning on getting married, but his unexpected death changed everything. Robin shares how she included the girlfriend in as many decisions as possible, how she acknowledged that the girlfriend’s heart was the broken heart. Robin even bought a burial plot for the girlfriend next to her husband.

Robin Eileen Bernstein is a writer in New York City with bylines in The New York Times (including the Modern Love column), The Washington Post, Boston Globe Magazine, Salon, The Daily News, Newsday, Weekly Humorist, Narratively, Next Avenue and more. Several of her pieces explore her unusual experience of being widowed while getting divorced. She's also working on a memoir about growing up 1970s Rockaway, NY, when she was a quiet teen who pursued her unlikely dream of being a drummer in a rock-n-roll band. An excerpt was a shortlisted finalist in Craft Magazine’s 2023 Setting Sketch Challenge. Robin has read her essays aloud at storytelling events in New York City and beyond, is an award-winning speechwriter, and was twice a first-round judge in the Erma Bombeck Writing Competition. In the visual arts, her figure drawings have been published in Persimmon Tree and Linea.

More at robineileenbernstein.com.

Thank you for letting us be in your ears.

Coffee, Grief and Gratitude is a created by Anne Gudger and Maria Gibson, a mom/daughter duo who talk about grief.

You can find them on Facebook at Coffee and Grief. Please join their private Facebook page: Coffee and Grief Community. If you’d like to learn more about their grief writing group that happens in October, please go to: https://writeyourgriefout.thinkific.com/

You can also email Anne and Maria at: coffeeandgrief@gmail.com

Anne’s memoir, THE FIFTH CHAMBER, a memoir of loss and love is available wherever you buy your books.

Please review THE FIFTH CHAMBER on Amazon and Goodreads. No matter where you bought your copy, or if you read it from the library, you can review it on those sites. We deeply appreciate you taking the time.

Thank you for liking and sharing the podcast!

Kelly talks about her range of grief from divorce, to the death of her kids’ father, her dad’s death and more. In this engaging, funny, tender conversation Kelly offers fabulous suggestions, like instead of asking someone “How are you?” she asks, “How are you right this second?”

After 22 years of fulltime freelancing, Kelly K. James made the decision to go “in-house” at a small company — and wrote about the transition from freelancer to corporate employee. The Book That (Almost) Got Me Fired: How I (Barely) Survived a Year in Corporate America is Kelly’s first memoir, an entertaining, honest account what to do (and what not) when you make that corporate leap in midlife.

A former attorney, she has been writing for a living, as a fulltime freelancer, and more recently, a corporate content writer, for more than 20 years. Currently she writes legal content by day and health/wellness, fitness, psychology, and career-related articles by night. Her freelance work has appeared in more than 65 major online and print publications including Huffington Post, The Girlfriend, NextTribe, Next Avenue, Chicago Health, Vibrant Life, and many other markets.

You can find out more about Kelly at http://www.kellykjames.net, https://www.publishersmarketplace.com/members/kellykjames/https://kellykjames.contently.com, https://kellykjames.contently.com

Thank you for letting us be in your ears.

Coffee, Grief and Gratitude is a created by Anne Gudger and Maria Gibson, a mom/daughter duo who talk about grief.

You can find them on Facebook at Coffee and Grief. Please join their private Facebook page: Coffee and Grief Community.

Their next 30day writing group, Write Your Grief Out, is coming in October. More here: https://writeyourgriefout.thinkific.com

You can also email Anne and Maria at: coffeeandgrief@gmail.com

Anne’s memoir, THE FIFTH CHAMBER, a memoir of loss and love, is available wherever you get your books.

Please review THE FIFTH CHAMBER on Amazon and Goodreads. No matter where you bought your copy, you can review it on those sites. We so appreciate you taking the time to review Anne’s memoir.

We’d love you to like and share the podcast!