This Club Suuucks

Melissa M. Monroe

Welcome to This Club Suuucks: Grief Support for Parents After the Lasagnas Are Long Gone. These episodes are recorded from the weekly #ChildLossChat on Twitter Spaces hosted by Melissa Monroe, aided and abetted by co-host Alexandria Szeman. Melissa has supported hundreds of bereaved folks through her work as a doctor and teacher of acupuncture. Her understanding of grief became more personal after her two-year-old daughter Alice died in her sleep of unknown causes* just eleven days after her second birthday in 2013. No one wants to be in the bereaved parents club, but here we are. After Alice died, Melissa found...

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This Club Suuucks

Episodes (23)

Jun 2, 2023 Prolonged Anticipatory Grief with Karen DeBonis, Author of "Growth"
Jan 3, 2023 Grief Following Suicide with Norine Vander Hooven, LCSW
Jan 3, 2023 Crisis in Faith During Grief with Stephanie Herrman, M.Theology

This Club Suuucks

Jun 2, 2023
32½ minutes
29 MB

May 24, 2023 Prolonged Anticipatory Grief with Karen DeBonis, Author of the memoir “Growth." Anticipatory grief can occur for days, months, or even years before an impending loss and is experienced by many people whose loved ones suffer from chronic and/or degenerative diseases. Today’s guest Karen DeBonis, author of “Growth: A Mother, Her Son, and the Brain Tumor They Survived” spoke with us about her journey…which, gratefully, has a happier ending than most of my guests. From years of misdiagnoses, medical gaslighting, overcoming people-pleasing behavior, patient advocacy, and balancing work with caring for two boys—one of whom was fin...

This Club Suuucks

Prolonged Anticipatory Grief with Karen DeBonis, Author of "Growth"

Melissa M. Monroe

00:00 -31:33