This week, Liz sits down with Cleo Childs to discuss hergrief journey in losing her mom to early onset Alzheimer’s when Cleo was just 28 years old. Cleo began caretaking for her mother while she was still in undergraduatestudies and was faced with the unexpected enormity of caring for one of her most precious relationships while her mother’s disease rapidly altered her.

Cleo’s grief experiences center primarily on losing hermother, however Liz and Cleo discuss grief if in its many forms, dating experiences while in grief, corporations profiteering off grief, and above all, the deeply human connection that we all may experience when we are vulnerable and real with ourselves and others about the reality of our suffering.

In her spoken word poetry album “Moving With” Cleo shows the path her grief took from having her mother, losing her mother, and the peace and acceptance she feels now. Her book “Moving With” will be released later this year.

Learn more about Cleo and her the projects at cleochilds.com