Our friend Jess talks to us about losing her job at the beginning of the pandemic and shares how she's been coping in the months since.

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Episode 13: Jessica's Story- 2020 Griefs

Our friend Lia shares her experience navigating a pandemic as a grad student and undergrad instructor. 

Episode 12: Lia's Story- 2020 Griefs

From outer space to inner breath, places we miss since our moms died and places we miss since the start of pandemic life, Brooke and Haley discuss literal and metaphorical spaces in relationship to grief.

Episode 11: Space

An episode inspired by a conversation Haley had with her friend Cid, the girls talk about physical manifestations of grief and embracing the art of radical self-care.

Episode 10: Physical Manifestations

Brooke and Haley aren't back in the studio yet, but here's an episode from their iPhones.

Episode 9: We're Back! (ish)

Brooke and Haley talk about God. Specifically, how Brooke's faith helped her heal and how, as a non-Christian, Haley sought out other methods to process grief.

Episode 8: God

With Brooke out of town on vacation, Haley discusses caregiving with guest co-host and "dear friend", Heather Parish. 

Episode 7: Caregiving

Brooke and Haley discuss the many ways clothing and jewelry tie to death and loss. Areas covered in this episode: shopping for a burial outfit, comfortable clothing for terminal patients, wearing inherited items, clothing with grief-related mantras, artists who utilize deceased people's clothing, ancient mourning customs, etc. 

Episode 6: Grief Clothing

Brooke and Haley discuss beginnings and endings.

Happy New Year Special

On Christmas day, Brooke and Haley discuss their feelings about the holiday. IE: Brooke loves all of it and Haley doesn't. 

Christmas Special

Brooke and Haley discuss the comforting and frustrating things well-intentioned people said to them in the early days of losing their moms. 

Episode 5: Platitudes & Gratitudes

Brooke and Haley discuss Pet Loss with their very first live guest, Terry Lewis. Also: an unfortunate run-in with a microphone and some housekeeping from last week.

Episode 4: Pet Death

Brooke and Haley discuss the different methods they use for coping. Included: eating, hoarding, meditating, making art, and not smoking cigarettes.

Episode 3: Coping Mechanisms

Brooke and Haley discuss mourning complicated relationships. Also: Hope Eldemann, Mary Tudor, and (of course) having but one listener.

Episode 2: Complicated Relationships

In this second attempt at making a Dead Folks episode (but first actual RECORDED episode), Brooke and Haley discuss the different ways the holidays have shifted for them since losing their mothers. Also covered: difficult relationships, getting older, Brené Brown, grief backpacks, and whether or not the only one listening is Haley's younger sister.

Episode 1: The Holidays (AKA Kind of Episode Two)

A "comedy" podcast about grief and loss, hosted by Brooke Aiello and Haley White. (We acknowledge we might be the only ones in the world who think we're funny.)

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