Is It Grief If Nobody Died?
Host Jason Michael Perry sits down with psychotherapist Jessica Daniel, founder of Peace in Perspective, to ask what happens when you’re grieving something that never had a funeral.
Jess widens grief past death — a career, an identity, the life you were promised. Maryland has lost more than 31,000 federal jobs in about a year, and she describes what that grief looks like when it walks into her office. Then the harder part: why so many people hand their inner lives to something free, awake at 2 am, and impossible to disappoint.
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- Maryland Department of Health — 988 in Maryland
- 211 Maryland — Maryland’s Helpline — dial 211 or text your zip code to 898-211.
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