Griefland With Rachel Blatt

Debbie Weiss lost her mother four days before her tenth birthday. Four decades later, she lost her husband. And somewhere between those two losses, she discovered something: the grief she never processed as a child had been quietly running her life the whole time. In this episode of Griefland, host Rachel Blatt sits down with Debbie, author, widow, and creator of The Hungover Widow Substack, to ta...

When Joanne Levy-Prewitt was nine years old, her father waved at her from a stretcher — a weak wave, his gold wedding ring catching the light and said "bye, baby." He died that night. What followed wasn't just grief. It was decades of learning how to feel it. In this episode of Griefland, host Rachel Blatt talks with her dear friend Joanne about what happens when a child is told to be brave, hold...

Matt Bradley lost his dad at 11. Thirty years later, he lost his wife and became a solo dad to a toddler. In this episode, he does something rare: he talks about grief from both sides of the equation, as the kid who lived it and the parent now navigating it. Rachel Blatt sits down with Matt, founder of the Solo Dad podcast, in a conversation that runs from childhood memory to co-parenting to what...

Brandon Losacker was 16 when his father was diagnosed with glioblastoma, a terminal brain cancer. Two years later, he'd dropped out of school, become a caregiver, and buried his dad. He's 50 now, and the echoes are still very much there. In this first guest episode of Griefland, host Rachel Blatt sits down with her friend Brandon, the videographer who created both of her sons' bar mitzvah montages...

This isn't a podcast about getting over grief. It's about what grief actually does to us and never stops doing. Rachel Blatt lost her husband Dave to cancer in 2022, leaving her as a solo parent to two boys who were 9 and 13 at the time. That loss didn't just break her heart, it raised questions she couldn't stop asking: Will they be okay? Am I enough? What will they miss that I can't give them? G...