Revisiting Stephen Colbert: Grateful for Grief

The podcast is taking a short break, new episodes of All There Is will return January 10th. In the meantime, we are sharing Anderson's powerful conversation with Stephen Colbert from the first season of the podcast. Can we learn to love the things we most wish had never happened? Can we really become grateful for grief? Heartbreak? The deaths of loved ones? Stephen believes we can and explains why and how. It is a deeply moving, thought-provoking, and at times funny conversation that Anderson says has had a major impact on his life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Thank you

I’ve been putting off listening to this pod because, though it is 46 and 47 years old, my grief at losing my father, my mother, and my sister is still raw. I was a teen when these two separate incidents occurred. Thank you to both Anderson and Stephen for your willingness to share your grief. I find many shared reactions in yours. I learned quite a lot in just this one old episode - maybe I’ll have the courage to listen to the rest.

lots to learn from both

I really think that is helpful to many of us. amazing collaboration between both of them.

wisdom personified

these 2 men have allowed their grief to inform their lives and that of others with great wisdom about being fully human. such a gift!

So real!

Having lost my brother, my best friend, in 1974, in an auto accident, he was 20,I was 26, so much resonated with me. Then lost parents. Then the worst, my 19+ year old to Suicide. Thanks so much Anderson and Steven. We have to be open about our everlasting grief.