In this episode, Widow Jo and Orphan Lauren discuss holidays in the aftermath of loss. With both birthdays and Mother's Day occurring around the same time, they highlight the pain of the empty chair.

Sources:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02668734.2025.2549881
https://www.ptsd.va.gov/understand/what/anniversary_reactions.asp
https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2024/the-anniversary-effect-of-traumatic-experiences

The place of business referenced in this episode is Gossip & Nail Spa located at 2813 E Carson St, Pittsburgh, PA 15203

Created and hosted by: Widow Jo & Orphan Lauren
Produced and edited by: Sam Miller

Widow Jo and Orphan Lauren discuss habits and rituals and how to have an adult human brain. Delving deeper into the science of grief, they discover even more ways their exeriences differ.

Sources:

https://academic.oup.com/nc/article/2024/1/niae041/7929776
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25363662/

Widow Jo and Orphan Lauren are both intimately acquainted with big grief, and they each have practiced vastly different and surprisingly similar approaches to coping with that grief. The Grin Reapers Club is a brand new podcast where audiences will listen to them discuss those differing approaches and similar outlooks, answer questions, and talk about what the rest of life looks like in the wake of tragedy with the most brutal honesty and the darkest of humor in this most human endeavor.

Premiering at the Pittsburgh Fringe Festival, The Grin Reapers Club debuts their first episode which was recorded in front of a live audience.