All There Is with Anderson Cooper - Season 3: All There Is

Episode Date: October 5, 2024

Grief never goes away but we can learn to live with it and learn from it. In Season 3 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Grief can feel so lonely. It certainly has for me. I buried my grief as a child. I ran from it for most of my life. But it's been waiting for me, and now I'm trying to face it. I find myself asking that question like, Why did you leave? Yeah, why did you leave me? There were three of us. Suddenly, I was just like, oh, I've never felt alone like this.

I've realized by suppressing my sadness over the losses in my life, I've also suppressed my ability to feel joy. And I don't want to do that any longer. The wound is the only route to the gift. The grief and the loss is the only route to the vitality of being alive. It's the longing. It's the admission of the pain. It's the crying out.

Hey, I need you. What are you? I miss you so much. And only in that absence, only in really inhabiting that absence, being that little boy at the bottom of that empty cave in vast darkness, and just kind of crying out, that's the only moment that she comes. The longing and the grief, fully inhabiting it and feeling it is the only way i can really feel close to her again join me for conversations about loss love and life

all there is season three begins october 9th listen wherever you get your podcasts