Coffee, Grief, And Gratitude

Coffee, Grief, And Gratitude

Anne Gudger and Maria Gibson are widening the grief conversation, talking about the things we don’t normally take the time to talk about. We’ll hear different people’s grief stories and talk with them about their experience of grief throughout their lives. We get learn new things every time. We’re here to ask questions, not prescribe answers. We’re not experts in your grief. We’ll hear stories about death, sickness, politics, dementia, loss of youth, loss of self. Anne Gudger’s memoir, THE FIFTH CHAMBER is out now. Follow her at: Annegudger.com. Find us on FB at Coffee and Grief Community.

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February 10, 2025 38 mins

Sarah Gormley talks about how she grieved the death of her parents, how she found joy and gratitude too. She calls herself a joy broker. She describes grief as “this slippery thing.” This conversation was recorded before her fabulous memoir, THE ORDER OF THINGS: a Memoir about Chasing Joy, was published. It’s now out in the world and you can buy it wherever you buy your books. 

 

Sarah Gormley is the author of THE ORDER OF THINGS: a ...

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We’re delighted to bring you Coffee Talk #62 from October 2024. We hope these five phenomenal writers/readers/humans and their stories are just what your heart needs today. If you missed the live Coffee Talk, if you’d like to hear their voices again, we bring you Terah Van Dusen, Jewelie Randall, Phillipa Leseberg, Natalie Serianni, and Jennifer Bedford.

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February 4, 2025 57 mins

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We’re delighted to bring you Coffee Talk #65, our first Coffee Talk this year. We hope these five phenomenal writers/readers/humans and their stories are just what your heart needs today. If you missed the live Coffee Talk, if you’d like to hear their voices again, we bring you Sarah Gormley, Kelly Jeske, Domi Shoemaker, Meg Weber, and Mindy Nettifee.

 

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August 7, 2024 50 mins

We’re delighted to highlight Coffee Talk #55 from last February. We hope these fivevphenomenal writers/readers/humans and their stories are just what your heart needs today. If you missed the live Coffee Talk, if you’d like to hear their voices again, we bring you Anne Richardson, Beth Bornstein Dunnington, Blair Hurley, J’aime Morrison, and Mary Mandeville.


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July 24, 2024 46 mins


We love sharing this Coffee Talk from December 2023. We hope you enjoy the heart-wide stories from these phenomenal humans: Alexis Chen Johnson, Amy Gamble, Asha Dore, Danielle Marie Walker, and J’aime Morrison.

 

If you missed it or want to relisten, here it is. The readers all brought the best heart medicine.

 

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Ashmeeta openly shares about being widowed and having her mom, whom she was close with, die. She talks about supporting her kids through their grief, how she both gave them space to grieve as well as keeping eyes on them, describing herself as an Eagle Mama.


The grief support group Ashmeeta mentions is Grief Share which can be found all over. https://www.griefshare.org/


Ashmeeta Rama Madhav is an educator, resilience and ...

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Beth reads a piece about a beloved friend who died by suicide almost four decades ago. She talks about long term grief, the importance of writing our stories, the importance of sharing our stories.


Beth leads the Big Island Writers’ Workshop in Hawai’i and in cities throughout the U.S, and since 2020, also on Zoom. Beth’s mission is to empower women to find their stories and get them out in the world. She likes to think of it ...

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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...

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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 ac...

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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 fre...

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June 12, 2024 45 mins

We’re delighted to share our recent Coffee Talk with these phenomenal writers/readers: Robert McBride, Lucy Filppu, Ona Gritz, Heather Morris, and Anne Gudger.


If you missed it or want to relisten, here it is. The readers all brought the best heart medicine.


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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.


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Lisa Keefauver shares insights and compassion along with humor. She talks about the importance of sharing her husband’s life, not just his death. She encourages grief supporters to keep showing up for our grievers and to remember it’s not anyone’s job to fix them. Grievers aren’t broken. There’s nothing to fix.


Her fabulous book: GRIEF IS A SNEAKY BITCH: An Uncensored Guide to Navigating Loss is out today! It’s one to own and ...

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May 28, 2024 48 mins

Helen shares her wisdom and heart in this deep and wide conversation where she reminds us to have compassion for ourselves and others, where she reminds us that healing can come from holding each other with the same vulnerability we’d like to be held, where she reminds us everyone can make a difference.


Helen Marie is a registered integrative therapist in the UK with a Post Graduate Diploma in Psychotherapy and Counseling from...

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Coffee Talk #58: a special reading honoring Harvey Walker. Our dear Monica Welty emceed this evening, remembering/honoring her son Harvey who died 11 years ago. It's a beautiful event with four amazing readers: Ami Patel, Danielle Woermann, Krista Dabakis Price, and Monica Welty.


If you missed it or want to relisten, here it is. They all brought the best heart medicine. What a tender evening.


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In this tender conversation with Jessica Fein she shares the power of vulnerability and talks about how grief is love, how she’s grown her heart and understands that joy and sorrow live together. She tells her story of her daughter’s illness and death, and how her ambiguous grief was so different from what she names Hallmark card grief—the grief we think of when someone dies.


Jessica Fein is the author of Breath Taking: A Mem...

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Judith sites a beautiful ritual that includes the questions What happened to you? Why does your heart ache? We love these questions and how they’re wrapped in compassion, how they’re so different from asking What’s wrong? She shares about her writing journey and reminds us to stay with, not give up, on that things that matter to us.


Judith Turner-Yamamoto’s debut novel LOVING THE DEAD AND GONE, is a story of intergenerational ...

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Dianna shares that she while she was pregnant and knew her daughter, Mary Rose’s, chances of survival were slim, she was planning a funeral while buying a preemie car seat. Life and death were closely woven together. In this episode Dianna brings voice to grieving parents, to ghost babies, and to so much more.


DIANNA VAGIANOS ARMENTROUT’s memoir Walking the Labyrinth of My Heart: A Journey of Pregnancy, Grief and Newborn Death...

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Ona shares about her sister Angie who was murdered decades ago and family secrets that kept the murder and Ona’s grief buried. In her soon to be released memoir, Everywhere I Look (Apprentice House Press; April 16, 2024), Ona Gritz unravels the mystery and tragedy of her sister, Andrea Susan Gritz, also known as Angie Boggs, while sharing her own awakening to loss, grief, guilt, and the truth.


Ona Gritz  holds a Master of Arts...

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April 9, 2024 49 mins

Amy Baskin, Lenka Varekova, Meghan Riordan Jarvis, Melinda Maxwell-Smith, and Miriam Gershow each read a grief piece at our April Coffee Talk. If you missed it or want to relisten, here it is. They all brought the best heart medicine. What a tender evening.


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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.


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Tesha reads short pieces from her new co-authored book Beyond Widow, sharing insights into being recently widowed and how she’s learning to be in this new role, this new identity. This episode is full of truth and wisdom and compassion. We hope you love listening.


A Tedx speaker and author, Tesha's new book, Beyond Widow, was released in June 2023 and sold 1,000 copies in its first month. Beyond Widow was written with Patt...

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