On this episode of The Power of Love Show we welcome special guest and author of, ‘Grief Is Love: Living With Loss’, Marisa Renee Lee.

Former appointee in the Obama White House and writer, Marisa Renee Lee says, “Grief requires a degree of vulnerability that America doesn’t freely give Black Americans; you can’t grieve when you can’t breathe. The lack of safety and support is something we must learn to demand to fully heal from our many losses.”

Author Marisa Renee Lee shows what it looks like to live a full and joyful life after experiencing a life-changing loss. In her book, Grief Is Love, she reveals that healing does not mean moving on—healing means learning to acknowledge and create space for your grief, forever. She guides you through the pain of grief—whether you lost the person recently or long ago—she shows you what it looks like to honor your loss on your unique terms, and she debunks the idea of grief stages or timelines.

Living with loss requires you to learn how to love yourself and the one you lost with the same depth, passion, joy, and commitment you did when they were alive, perhaps even more. At its core, Grief is Love explores what comes after death, and shows us that if we can own and honor what we've lost, we can have a beautiful and joyful life in the midst of grief.

Lee shows us that there isn't only one way to grieve, and so your expression of it should be unique. With this book, she shepherds you through your grief as it rises and falls again and again. Through compassionate and evocative prose, Lee shows us that healing after loss is not about burying pain, but about acknowledging it and allowing it to move through you, this is the path to wholeness. She shows us how to manage the holidays, birthdays, and anniversaries; how to get through the next year, or even tomorrow.

In this book, she also explores the unique impact of grief on Black people — Black women in particular — and reveals the key factors that proper healing requires for all of us: acknowledgement, rest, community, reflection, support, care, feeling, grace, and more.

Marisa elegantly offers research-based advice and wisdom about what it means to claim space authentically and defiantly for these complicated feelings and emotions. Marisa is no stranger to grief herself. In 2008, after a lengthy battle, she lost her mother to cancer. Shortly thereafter, she lost her fertility, a pregnancy, and most recently a cousin to the COVID-19 pandemic. These losses transformed her life and led her to question what grief really is and what healing truly requires.

Marisa Renee Lee is a called upon advocate, writer, and speaker on coping with grief. She is a rabble-rouser of social healing: former managing director of My Brother's Keeper Alliance; co-founder of the digital platform Supportal; and founder of The Pink Agenda; a national organization dedicated to raising money for breast cancer care, research, and awareness. She is a regular contributor to Glamour, Vogue, MSNBC, and CNN. She is a graduate of Harvard and an avid home cook. She lives with her husband Matt, their newborn son Bennett, and their dog, Sadie.

Learn more:

Website: MarisaReneeLee.com

Instagram: @MarisaReneeLee

‘Grief Is Love’ Book (Amazon): [ Ссылка ]

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