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All There Is with Anderson Cooper

All There Is with Anderson Cooper

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Grief can feel so lonely but talking about it, and listening to others share their grief experiences helps. In Season 3 of All There Is, Anderson Cooper continues his deeply personal exploration of grief in all its complexities. In moving and honest discussions, he learns from others who’ve experienced life-altering losses. All There Is with Anderson Cooper is about the people we lose, the people left behind, and how we can live on – with loss and with love. | Visit the All There Is online grief community at cnn.com/allthereisonline2022-2025 CNN Social Sciences
Episodes
  • Coming Back To Life

    Coming Back To Life
    Apr 25 2025
    In this special episode of the podcast, Anderson reports from Rome following the death of Pope Francis, and speaks to religion professor Elaine Pagels who lost both her 6-year-old son Mark and her husband Heinz. Visit the All There Is online grief community at cnn.com/allthereisonline and watch the video version on YouTube. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    33 mins
  • Love Is What Survives

    Love Is What Survives
    Jan 29 2025
    In the season three finale, Anderson plays some of the more than 6000 voicemails he has received from podcast listeners about what they have learned in their grief that might help others. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    54 mins
  • Doris Kearns Goodwin

    Doris Kearns Goodwin
    Jan 15 2025
    Pulitzer Prize winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin knows what it’s like to face the past. She talks with Anderson about how Abraham Lincoln and other historic figures dealt with grief, and how she has. She went through boxes of papers and mementos with her husband Dick Goodwin before he died and it changed both of their lives in ways she never expected. Visit the All There Is online grief community at cnn.com/allthereisonline and watch the video version on YouTube. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    32 mins

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Having lost my father at the young age of 63 and then my mother 18 years later, the feeling of loss and grief is carried throughout your lifetime. Thank you for being so open and honest and vulnerable with us.

So powerful

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I just happened upon this podcast and Love it....so interesting...I love the little stories...good and sad....very real and meaningful to my own experience....thanks for doing this!!

Great !!!!

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I am so glad to hear these stories of resilience and life after loss. The difficulties are real, but help make life meaningful in different and unique ways, even when we are sad and sometimes angry.

Truly Appreciate All These Stories

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I was hooked as soon as i started listening to Anderson Coopers podcast. It hits home on how people struggle with grief when someone very dear passes away.
I struggle with grief because I didn't get to say goodbye to my mother. I just got a call saying she passed. i didn't even know she was sick. My big brother just passed away in a freak accident. We have since found out he had a woman staying with him and stole his money. She was stepping over him stealing stuff before the police could stop her and my other brother could get to his home. Its just horrible.

love ❤️ Anderson!!

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Thank you Anderson! very interesting talk about grief and different ways to look at the process. You are not alone.

Grief Community

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Thank you, Anderson Cooper, for allowing us a peek inside your grief. It truly is helping me deal with my own grief. It’s a subject that’s RARELY spoken of, and certainly not by people who influence the work and thoughts of others. I know your Mom — and from a farther distance your Dad and brother — would be proud of this work. I listened to the first three casts on one evening, and I can’t wait for the next ones. Hearing Stephen Colbert speak so openly about how the loss of his father and two brothers when he was so young showed me a glimpse of why he’s such a caring (even when funny) interviewer. Hearing BJ Miller speak so openly about going into medicine after losing three limbs humbled me. I keep remembering something I read a long time ago. The only way out of grief is through. You’re helping me — and probably many others — to feel those feelings. And not to take on board the pop-culture view of “just get over it”. The grief has gotten easier to bear, but it’s still there and sneaks up on me. And I know it always will. As Queen Elizabeth II said after the September 11th attacks, “Grief is the price we pay for love.” Again, thank you.

Dear, Loving, Powerful — You MUST listen to this Podcast!

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This is the first podcast I've ever listened to. It's such an extraordinary story. I love Anderson, I always think of him as a real person. Someone you could sit and talk with hours. Listening to him talk about his loss,as well as his quest's stories, has been so helpful. I listened and would say things like, that's how I feel, or that's what I did. Anderson mentioned feeling as though he's the last man standing, I say that often.
I lost my dad, my eldest brother, and most recently my second oldest brother. With him, I felt as though I lost a spouse of 54 years, because we were always together.
Thank you for sharing your experiences and stories.

Helpful with Healing

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Opening up, deeply, something that I feel that I can be good at; if I had another soul that tried to open up with me.

Love

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Listening to Stephen and Andy talk about their grief,made me realize we are similar. I I counted how many days my older brother lived. then when I got to become the age that he was when he died I had a little breakdown because I could never imagine becoming older than him and when I lost my dad I lived out of state and having to come home to my childhood home and have to pack up everything and figure out what could I take there was my brother's things and things like you I would never use but what had meaning and being the only person left in our family. I thought I had finished grieving or had at least come to a big part but I was trying to do it silently because other people got worried about me talking about it so much. I just wanted to say thank you for allowing others to process this with you.

I gasped out loud!

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Grief is hard. Mourning is hard. Sharing the stories and memories of your loved ones is healing.

Thanks for sharing with us! #griefishard

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