Sema
Experimental conversations on loss, death, healing, and grief facilitated by CL Young.
1 / Loss, Being a Therapist, & Intergenerational Grief w/ Ann O’Leary Young
A conversation with Ann O’Leary Young, M.S.W., LCSW, my mother, on the early deaths of her father & brother, how grief passes through families, and being a therapist.
2 / Writing, Detachment, & Ritual w/ Rushi Vyas
Poet Rushi Vyas on writing after sudden & unexpected loss, the wisdom of detachment, and ritual as a tool for healing & decolonization.
3 / Boise, Friendship Loss, & Time w/ Tyler Brewington
Poet Tyler Brewington on place, grief rhythms, the comfort of geologic time, and the link between friendship & formation of self.
5 / Newborn Loss, Place, & Deep Grief w/ Cedar Brant
Poet & botanist Cedar Brant on newborn loss, the role of place in healing, and erasure of self in deep grief and parenthood.
6 / Adoption, Potentiality, & the Loss of Unknowing w/ Erinrose Mager
Writer, editor, & teacher Erinrose Mager on the unknowingness associated with adoption and parental estrangement, the interplay between potentiality & failure, and ritual as a presencing force.
7 / Ambient Loss, Having Children, & the Necessity of Storytelling w/ Camille T. Dungy
Writer & professor Camille T. Dungy on loss as a continuous presence, cross-generational relationships, and climate crisis.
8 / Relationality, Embodiment, & Suicide w/ Mairead Case
Writer, teacher, & editor Mairead Case explores relationality in life & after death, embodiment, and grieving & writing about suicide.