Nora McInerny is no stranger when it comes to dealing with grief. Over the space of 3 months in 2014, she lost both her husband and father to cancer and had a miscarriage with her second child. Since that time, Nora has re-married, authored several books, including "The Hot Young Widows Club" and "Bad Vibes Only". She also is the host of the podcast "Terrible, Thanks for Asking".
Nora has the rare gift of handling grief with equal parts grace, wisdom, and humor. In 2019 she gave a TED talk: "We Don't 'Move On' From Grief. We Move Forward With It":
Nora's talk has been one of the most insightful videos on grief I have seen to date. Some of my favorite quotes: "Everyone you love has a 100 percent chance of dying." "I'm just trying to do what I can to make more people comfortable with the uncomfortable, and grief is so uncomfortable." "We don't look at the people around us experiencing life's joys and wonders and tell them to 'move on', do we?" Again, I say: watch the whole thing from start to finish. I think that Nora really understands some of the emotions we go through when we grieve.
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