Deep Longing with Judith Turner-Yamamoto

Judith sites a beautiful ritual that includes the questions What happened to you? Why does your heart ache? We love these questions and how they’re wrapped in compassion, how they’re so different from asking What’s wrong? She shares about her writing journey and reminds us to stay with, not give up, on that things that matter to us. Judith Turner-Yamamoto’s debut novel LOVING THE DEAD AND GONE, is a story of intergenerational love, loss, and longing that grew from her earlies memories. A Mariel Hemingway Book Club pick, the novel won the 2023 Independent Publisher Book Awards Gold Medal in Southern Regional Fiction. LOVING THE DEAD AND GONE was shortlisted for the 2023 Eric Hoffer Book Awards Grand Prize, where it was also finalist for the Debut Novel Award and awarded an honorable mention in General Fiction. Judith teaches and speaks at conferences and book festivals about healing trauma and finding fiction in fractured families. Thank you for letting us be in your ears. Coffee, Grief and Gratitude is a created by Anne Gudger and Maria Gibson, a mom/daughter duo who talk about grief. You can find them on Facebook at Coffee and Grief. Please join their private Facebook page: Coffee and Grief Community. You can also email Anne and Maria at: [email protected] Anne’s memoir, THE FIFTH CHAMBER, a memoir of loss and love, came out in September. You can buy it wherever you get your books. Please review THE FIFTH CHAMBER on Amazon and Goodreads. No matter where you bought your copy, you can review it on those sites. We so appreciate you taking the time to review Anne’s memoir. We’d love you to like and share the podcast!