Episode 6— The Grief Intersection of Caregiving, Chronic Illness, and Community Care w/ lizzie anderson

In this episode, host Dana Daugherty invites her guest, lizzie anderson, to share her experience of processing grief and loss through the lens of multiple identities she holds, especially as a caregiver/carer, justice lover and activist, person with multiple chronic illnesses, and therapist in community. This is a part two/companion episode to the previous episode, Episode 5 featuring Hanna du Plessis and lizzie. lizzie shares the importance of connection with community and with self in grief and has found care to be an act of resistance, especially against systems that don’t put care first. She shares how personal and professional experiences with loss have challenged how she thinks about death and served to help her reimagine how she thinks about grief, death, and loss.

Connect with lizzie through her website