Mira Simone joins Jaclyn in this episode for an open and important discussion about kindness within the grief space.
Trigger warning. This interview discusses a specific person's experience with death and trauma.
Mira is a widow, mother, published writer, grief coach, and grief educator. She is also a registered mental health occupational therapist in Ontario, Canada.
In early 2019, Mira's life was entirely blown apart, when her partner Brian was diagnosed with an unbelievably aggressive cancer. He died seven weeks later, leaving her alone with their almost three-year-old daughter. Almost immediately, Mira followed an uncontrollable urge to write about her grief publicly on social media and began publishing essays, as a way to process and give voice to the loneliness of her experience. The response was profound. Her following grew, as more and more widows, grievers, and grief-curious humans joined her community, craving a more open dialogue around the grieving process.
In 2022, Mira launched New Moon Mira, her grief coaching business, through which she supports widows and grievers in more intimate group settings both in-person and online and provides grief literacy training for grief-support people and healthcare professionals.
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Important links from this week's episode:
kindness.org
newmoonmira.com
His Beautiful Death Essay https://modernloss.com/his-beautiful-death/
Follow Mira
- IG: @newmoonmira
- Facebook: @newmoonmira
Credits
- Host: Jaclyn Lindsey
- Guest: Mira Simone
- Producer: Melissa Malone
- Associate Producer: Becca Reed
- Music Composition: Chris Christiana
- Design: Ben Gibson, Christine Do, Smithfield Studio
Transcript available at this link.
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