Elizabeth Day: Grief for the life unlived

Elizabeth Day is an award winning journalist, author, and creator and host of the international hit podcast ‘How To Fail with Elizabeth Day’. Elizabeth is our greatest champion of failure. She has shown us that far from keeping the transformational times of failure hidden, we should share them, celebrate them. Because far from isolating us, they are one of the many, very human things that unite us all.  Elizabeths’ interest in this area of human experience has been as a consequence of what she has described as a series of her own, life defining moments of adversity and ‘failure’: the breakdown of her marriage, and the grief she has experienced as a result of her experiences of pregnancy and miscarriage.During this series we are throwing our arms wide to the many unique and different ways we experience grief and loss, which of course is not limited to bereavement. 250,000 women every year in the UK experience miscarraige- the grief that is experienced as a result, for many women is indelible, yet it is a type of loss we are culturally expected to keep out of sight. Historically, there has been no space for this female-centric experience of grief and loss, at all. Yet, for so many women, the journey to becoming a mother requires them to embark, to endure, and to contain some of the most unrelentingly brave and painful journeys of their lives. One which for many, means they are required to stop at nothing in their commitment to bring their children into existence: particularly their own mental and physical health.   Elizabeth has spent the last few years, courageously narrating her experience of this very particular type of grief and loss, which has been a torchlight to so many women in what can be one of the most relentlessly challenging journeys of their lives. So if the world is feeling like a dark or difficult place, join us and let your heart be ignited by the fire of the human spirit.Created and hosted by Jess MillsCreative co-production by Bonny TydemanProduced by Joel Porter - Dot Dot Dot Productions Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.