#24 with Jill Johnson-Young - LCSW and Grief Expert

Jill Johnson-Young is a grief therapist, author, speaker and educator. She spent more than a decade with hospice. She is also twice widowed, now I’m now married to a funeral director who is also a member of DMORT and has been deployed twice in the pandemic. She teaches school staff how to help with grief and cope with their own losses, and therapists how to approach grief in a way that doesn’t suggest grief has to last forever. She provides grief support groups online, as well as a dementia support group. Jill has written books for children about grief and a workbook for adults, as well as “The Rebellious Widow.”

In this episode we discuss:

• How Jill coped with the passing of her wives, and breaking the "widow rule"
• The way hospice care is viewed by society and how the terminally ill can benefit
• How to say goodbye to a loved one, go through grief and recover

"The research says that we tend to be done with our toughest grief in the first 3-4 months. We've grieved with our spouse, and reorganized our lives in our heads before they die. So were done with our grief when others are just starting." - Jill Johnson-Young

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