HeyJaredThe Grief Curator
The Grief Curator is devoted to the care and feeding of grievers and their support systems. Here you'll find essays, newsletters, and reflections on every kind of loss — the grief that comes with funerals and the grief that doesn't.
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- Sep 20, 2026
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Crying in Subtitles (opens the original)
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Both my parents instilled in me a great love for stories. My mother read to me every night as a child and my father told stories from his childhood in Poland.I sometimes struggle to put my grief into words and moments where I don't even realize I'm grieving. Then I read or watch a character go through their grief and I'm able to name mine.This episode is all about how literature and fiction can help us process our grief and fear. Especially when most of our grief support has disappeared.--------
It’s Okay to Feel Depressed. Something Is Very Wrong (opens the original)
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Put On Your Grief Boots - It's a New Season (opens the original)
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I'm back and I'm exhausted!In the second half of 2025 I took time off to deal with my own grief. Then 2026 came in with a bang: a fall down the stairs, a broken leg, and losing a job I'd held for seventeen years.This episode is where I tell you why Season 2 might sound different. Less clinical, more up close. Less curated, more real. We talk about Dolly Parton and Tim Curry, about grief fatigue, about why there's no such thing as comparing one loss to another, and about the exact moment I decide
Season 2: Casseroles Not Included (opens the original)
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They told you big girls don't cry. They told you six months is long enough to feel sad. We say: crying is healthy, and no one gets to tell you how long to grieve.Season 2 of Don't Tell Me To Get Over It is here and this season, I'm talking about the grief that doesn't come with a casserole. Because some of the losses we carry never get a funeral. No one brings us flowers when we lose our job. No one checks in after our favorite character dies.It's just us and our unseen grief.This season is more
Like Riding a Bike or Where the Heck do These Cables Go?! (opens the original)
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