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Podcast: Encompassing Cancer
Episode: The 'Grief Tornado': A conversation with Bree, a 2023 Cancer Unwrapped contest winner
Description: For this year's Cancer Unwrapped essay writing contest, we received submissions from all 50 states, over 900 high schools, and got a total of 1,112 essays! The winners came from 19 states, with 13 writing about a loved one’s diagnosis and 7 writing about their own personal diagnosis. For this episode, Lauren got to share a conversation with one of the winners, Bree. Bree talks about her grief experience, how the five stages of grief are more like ‘a tornado’, connecting with her mom in her final year, and the solidarity she’s found with other children who have lost a parent to cancer. She then...