Talks at Google's video: Marisa Renee Lee Grief Is Love: Living with Loss Talks at Google

For Mental Health Awareness Month, Marisa Renee Lee discusses her book Grief Is Love: Living with Loss. In her book, Marisa reveals that healing does not mean moving on—healing means learning to acknowledge and create space for your grief, forever. Marisa guides the reader through the pain of grief—whether you lost the person recently or long ago. Marisa shows you what it looks like to honor your loss on your unique terms, and she debunks the idea of grief stages or timelines. Living with loss requires you to learn how to love yourself and the one you lost with the same depth, passion, joy, and commitment you did when they were alive, perhaps even more. At its core, Grief Is Love explores what comes after death, and shows us that if we can own and honor what we've lost, we can have a beautiful and joyful life in the midst of grief. Marisa Renee Lee is a called upon advocate, writer, and speaker on coping with grief. She is a rabble-rouser of social healing: former Managing Director of My Brother's Keeper Alliance, the CEO of Beacon Advisors, co-founder of the digital platform Supportal, and founder of The Pink Agenda, a national organization dedicated to raising money for breast cancer care, research, and awareness. Marisa was recognized in the Chronicle of Philanthropy’s 40 Under 40 and was named a member of the Ebony Power 100 amongst other Community Crusaders she greatly admires. In 2018 she was a contributing author to the book Modern Loss, a series of candid stories and illustrations on grief. In addition, she has been a featured speaker at several forums including SXSW. Marisa has also written op-eds on race, opportunity, economic mobility, and grief for CNN, Bustle, Option B, News One, and other outlets and is a regular contributor to Glamour, Vogue, MSNBC, and CNN. Get the book here: https://goo.gle/36rtW4u. Moderated by Kristin Maczko.