In this episode of How Is Today, Clemmie asks her sister Nathalie some curious questions to break the silence around the grief of their mum Melanie who was killed in Thailand in the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami. Nathalie, Clemmie and a few others survived, but six friends including their mum did not.

For the first time in over 10 years, they will be opening the conversation about grief to show how possible a conversation around grief can be. Even when it seems too difficult. Even when it seems like too much time has passed. Even when it’s emotional.

What this episode also seeks to explain is that when you lose a parent, you lose one of your biggest cheerleaders in life. You lose your support system. Of course, there is the other parent left who, though they're doing an incredible job, is doing it without their partner. Without their left arm.

What we want to leave people with is this: in grief, you need your team. Bigger than that, you need an army.

This podcast is for the people this hasn’t happened to. We’re talking directly to you, the army. We need really, really healthy culture about grief. And we need you to get trained, to get us through. We'll be there for you. 

Thank you for listening. This one is a big one.🐙