{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"How Do We Move on from the Sudden Loss of a Loved One?","description":" As we come to the close of another year, it is a time when we naturally look both backward and forward. In looking back, it is often a time when we (individually and collectively) reflect on passings\u2014the death of important people in our lives. Some of them are lost through long, debilitating declines; others are lost suddenly, wrenched from us without morning. Either way, we mourn the losses; we seek ways to cope with and process our grief; to preserve their memories and find ways to move on. In today\u2019s episode, I\u2019m talking with Rachel Zimmerman, the author of \u201cUs, After,\u201d a memoir centered on the death of her husband, who committed suicide at the age of 50.  As an award-winning journalist, her story naturally begins with a search for answers: How could the man she\u2019d married, a devoted father and MIT professor with many friends, with no history of mental illness, have done this? But her exploration ends up being much more than a search for facts. Her book examines the devastation and resurgence of domestic life; the mental struggles between private and public lives; the secrets we keep; the work of motherhood; and the rediscovery of love, and the good of what remains.  It is a deeply personal, absorbing and yes, inspiring, story. About the Guest: Rachel Zimmerman is an award-winning journalist who has written about health and medicine for more than two decades. She\u2019s a contributor to The Washington Post and previously worked as a staff writer for The Wall Street Journal and a health reporter for WBUR, Boston\u2019s public radio station, where she co-founded a popular blog and podcast. Her essays and reporting have been published in The New York Times; Vogue.com; New York Magazine\u2019s The Cut; \u201cO\u201d The Oprah Magazine; The Atlantic; Slate; and The Huffington Post, among others. She received an MS from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and a BA from Sarah Lawrence College. She lives with her family in Cambridge, Massachusetts.   ","author_name":"45 Forward","author_url":"https:\/\/sites.libsyn.com\/556826","html":"