The Compassionate Friends
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Sep 20, 2026
Why You Still Feel Grief (Even When You Think You’ve Moved On)
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34:47Jason Wendroff-RawnickiGUEST
Um, and you know, so there's a lot of support out there.
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34:51Jason Wendroff-RawnickiGUEST
I'm also part of an organization called the compassionate friends here in the United.
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34:55Jason Wendroff-RawnickiGUEST
Oh, it's actually a global organization.
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34:58Jason Wendroff-RawnickiGUEST
It's specifically for parents that have lost children, siblings that have lost siblings, and grandparents that have lost grandchildren.
1. Hamnet: Motherhood, Nature and Theatre
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39:13Lesel DawsonGUEST
They're not present to them in their hearts, in their imagination, in their thoughts, and yet there's an absence in the world of that person.
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39:24Lesel DawsonGUEST
And there's a charity, Compassionate Friends, that really had a campaign about Say Their Name.
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39:31Lesel DawsonGUEST
So there's a way in which even if Hamlet the play doesn't fully express deal with the events of Hamnet's life, just having that name be spoken and be present feels very powerful.
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39:45Dominic LamHOST
In your article, Grief, Creativity and Ambiguity, the as-if of artistic play, and I'll link in the description, you write about the visual artist Helen Acklam.