This episode delves into the diverse ways grief is experienced and acknowledged across different cultures.
Grief may be a universal experience but it’s felt uniquely across our multicultural landscape. This is a second chance to hear the SBS award-winning podcast series Living Loss . The series won the Radio Today Award for Best Society and Culture Podcast. As a society, we might like to think we’re comfortable acknowledging death, but for many our dominant western culture struggles to hold space for grief.
Other cultures also carry taboos around grief, and in this second episode we interrogate this discomfort, whilst acknowledging the diverse ways cultures grieve. Probably about three weeks went by, and I started to notice that my workplace was like come on, you've called in sick a few times already, we really need you to be back in the workplace and performing. Because it's part of the human journey, and it's something we shouldn't rush, or we shouldn't make it to be a spectacle. Everyone, at some point or another, will lose someone or something they love.And yet death and grief are often seen as taboo, including in our dominant western culture.And how can we think about grief beyond the concept of death, looking at other profoundly life-changing forms of loss?In this episode, we explore the cultural taboos that still surround grief, looking at the unique and multifaceted ways different cultures hold space for grief. Sophie Mills is founder of the Grief Revolution - an organisation that tries to break down taboos surrounding death and grief through counselling services and community workshops. Her organisation was inspired by the death of her father when she was 24 years old, following two years of profound grief and depression, and subsequently the birth of her second child. Sophie says her loss was compounded by what she describes as a grief illiteracy in both her household and wider western culture. When I was 24 I had my Dad die, and I didn't really have any skills in terms of how to process that grie
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