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Q+A
Tell us a little bit about yourself.
I am most well-known for the podcast I host, called Terrible, Thanks for Asking, and the memoirs I’ve written. I also started an organisation called Still Kicking after my husband Aaron died of brain cancer. Still Kicking provides unrestricted financial grants to people going through difficult life experiences. So I guess I am a person who lives on the edge. Not an exciting edge, though; instead, the edge is a place between everything being fine and everything being awful. I think most of us are closer to that edge than we would like to admit, but I am a person who is acutely aware of it, just given my own life experience.
What is your experience with grief?
My experience with life is that it was really uneventful, and everything was ticking along the way I expected it would. I fell in love with this wonderful man, Aaron, and about one year later, he was in hospital. They told us he had a very aggressive brain cancer and might have three to five years to live. We got married, we had a baby, and he lived for three more years.
Aaron died in 2014. He died right after my father died. And my dad died right after I miscarried my second pregnancy, which I was hoping would keep Aaron alive in some magical way that only a baby can. From there my life was truly adrift. I went from being a regular person who
