All There Is with Anderson Cooper Nicole Chung: Carrying Memories Alone
Jan 17, 2024
Author Nicole Chung discusses carrying her adoptive parents' memories alone and her search for her birth parents, which led to surprising discoveries. The podcast also explores processing grief through writing and poetry, transformative shifts following loss, reflections on adoption and searching for birth family, and the purpose of pain and grief.
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Living through grief and memory
- Living after loss means carrying memories and remembering loved ones every day.
- Survival is intertwined with grief and remembering that life continues despite pain.
Grieving adoptive parents' loss
- Losing adoptive parents can feel like being "unadopted" and unraveling family identity.
- Carrying memories alone intensifies the sense of isolation after their death.
Birth family reconnected at childbirth
- Nicole began researching her birth family the month her first child was born and heard from them that same month.
- Meeting her birth family expanded her sense of family amid grieving her adoptive parents.