All There Is with Anderson Cooper CNN
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Do we ever move on from grief, or do we just learn to live with it? In Season 2 of All There Is, Anderson Cooper continues his deeply personal journey to understand his own feelings of grief in all its complexities, and in moving and honest discussions, learn from others who’ve experienced life-altering losses. All There Is with Anderson Cooper is about the people we lose, the people left behind, and how we can live on – with loss and with love.
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Sharing Our Grief
This episode, the season finale, is a reminder that none of us is alone in our grief. Anderson shares some of the thousands of extraordinarily moving voicemail messages he’s received from listeners.
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A Son’s Struggle, A Father’s Grief
Charlie Shelin was an exceptionally bright child who worked hard for years to keep the dark thoughts in his head from consuming him. In this moving conversation, his dad, Randy, talks with Anderson about Charlie’s mental health struggles and the layers of grief their family has lived with for years.
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Mama Shu: Turning Loss Into Love
Shamayim Harris, known in Detroit as Mama Shu, knows all too well the pain of loss. In 2007 her 2-year-old son Jakobi Ra was killed in a hit and run accident, and in 2021 her other son Chinyelu was murdered. Mama Shu talks with Anderson about how she worked hard to, in her words, “turn my grief into glory and my loss into love.” Focusing on one block in her neighborhood, she began cleaning up blighted properties and has created the non-profit Avalon Village, which aims to be a safe and welcoming space for kids in her community. “This is grief,” she tells Anderson, “it just looks beautiful.”
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Nicole Chung: Carrying Memories Alone
When best-selling author Nicole Chung’s adoptive parents died, she felt all alone. Her family had unraveled, and there was no one else who remembered what she was like as a little girl. Nicole speaks with Anderson about carrying her parents’ memories alone and the search for her birth parents, which led to a series of surprising discoveries.
You can call and leave a message at: (917) 727-6818. We'd especially like to hear if there's something that you've learned in your grief that might help others.
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Ashley Judd: Grief, Love and Naomi
When Naomi Judd died by suicide in 2022, after a long struggle with mental illness, her daughter Ashley found her. In this deeply moving, revealing, and insightful conversation Ashley Judd talks about the trauma she has worked hard to face, the grief she now feels, and how her mother’s spirit is still very much alive in her life.
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Revisiting Stephen Colbert: Grateful for Grief
The podcast is taking a short break, new episodes of All There Is will return January 10th. In the meantime, we are sharing Anderson's powerful conversation with Stephen Colbert from the first season of the podcast. Can we learn to love the things we most wish had never happened? Can we really become grateful for grief? Heartbreak? The deaths of loved ones? Stephen believes we can and explains why and how. It is a deeply moving, thought-provoking, and at times funny conversation that Anderson says has had a major impact on his life.
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Customer Reviews
Cannot say enough…
Thanks so much for this podcast. I am currently grieving the loss of my brother and listening to these stories made me feel less lonely. I am so grateful, please bring more. This journey is overwhelmingly painful to navigate alone.
Thanks, Anderson!
Honored
I listened to season one right after we lost our baby boy and it was so helpful so I called in when Anderson invited folks to share how grief has impacted their lives. When I saw the episode The Greatest Loss come up I knew it would be difficult but one day I felt I could listen. Just a few seconds in my eyes filled with tears as I hear a recording of my own voice sharing how the grief I live with after losing our son has helped others and their grief has helped me. I am so honored that my story was included and hopefully will help someone else. Thank you. This podcast has meant so much to me.
Relatable is an understatement
I stumbled on this podcast completely unaware of what I was going to listen to that day. I thought “this is great; I can help others get through their grief by listening”. After the first one I came to realize that I myself had never really managed my own losses, only pushing down feelings I did not know what to do with. Andersen’s honesty and vulnerability connect with his audience and encourages in the gentlest of ways a good strong look in the mirror. Each of us deal with grief differently but at the core of this deep human experience we must not deny its impact on our own journey.