The Disconnect Between the World's Perception of the Pandemic & the Searing & Troubling Reality of Covid Grief

In this special 5th anniversary episode of Stolen Goodbyes, Karen speaks with five incredible guests—Emma, Jane, Kristie, Sioux, and Brielle—about their ongoing journeys with COVID-19 grief. Each guest shares the heartbreaking details of losing their loved ones to the pandemic, including the pain of not being able to say goodbye, the trauma of key dates, and the overwhelming challenges of grief. They discuss the unspoken struggles of living through a time when the world moved on, while their grief remained. From feelings of guilt, anger, and isolation to seeking counseling and navigating life’s triggers, this emotional episode uncovers the lasting impact of the pandemic on the lives of the bereaved. They reflect on the emotional scars of COVID-19, the lack of public recognition, and the toll the loss has taken on both them and their children. Through their stories, they show how resilience, love, and hope can emerge from even the darkest moments.Guest Details:Emma Charlesworth: Lost her husband, Stuart "Charlie" Charlesworth, aged 45, to COVID-19 in March 2020.Jane Smith: Lost her husband, Goff, aged 53, to COVID-19 in April 2020.Sioux Hill: Lost her father, John Leigh, aged 72, to COVID-19 in April 2020.Brielle Adams: Lost her adoptive father, Leo Adams, aged 85, to COVID-19 in March 2020.Kristie Cervantes: Lost her husband, Rey, aged 42, to COVID-19 in December 2020.Listen to their episode on the award-winning Stolen Goodbyes podcast:Podlink: https://pod.link/1535766859Websites:https://karen-rice.com/podcast/https://shows.acast.com/stolen-goodbyesInstagramhttps://bit.ly/3ITXSFCX.RicekmcFacebookhttps://bit.ly/3kGGwnGLinked inwww.linkedin.com/in/kmcmediaSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/stolen-goodbyes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Welcome to the award-winning Stolen Goodbyes with Karen Rice, foreign affairs journalist, and podcaster. Each week inspiring wives, husbands, partners, children, and newly-weds intimately recount the shock and anguish of death to Covid 19 without warning or goodbye. Each season we push the boundaries to explore, explain and uncover a myriad of aspects of grief to Covid 19. Forced to grieve in isolation, these people detail needless mistakes and decisions that cost lives including patients being placed on Covid hospital wards when they were Covid-free or others condemned to an early death by the secret use of Do Not Resuscitate forms. Some were left to die alone, the ultimate social taboo. This unique, legacy podcast is a social history record of the widespread suffering caused by the Coronavirus pandemic of 2020, an infection that changed the world as we know it. It is also an important space where ordinary yet extraordinary people are remembered and celebrated for everything that made them quintessentially unique and irreplaceable. The participants of this podcast have bared their souls in a bid to stop their loved ones from being written off as just another statistic when they were much-loved individuals whose premature deaths could help to save others from the same fate while holding those responsible to account. This Covid 19 podcast helps participants and listeners to come to terms with a grief like no other.Created, produced, and hosted by Karen Rice, the Stolen Goodbyes podcast won gold in the fiercely competitive Best Lockdown category of the British Podcast Award 2021.Stolen Goodbyes is described as: "outstanding ethical and trauma-informed journalism. Karen Rice manages to capture a historic event in real time by listening with empathy. Future generations will listen to this podcast and know what it felt like to live through this pandemic." Dart Centre for Journalism and Trauma.Please listen to, review, and share this podcast with your network, it really helps!If you would like to make a donation (no matter how small) to the running costs of this passion project, please visit: https://karen-rice.com/podcast/ You can follow Karen on Twitter @Ricekmc and Stolen Goodbyes on Instagram: https://bit.ly/3ITXSFC Facebook: https://bit.ly/3kGGwnG and Youtube: http://bit.ly/3Yq0jW5Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/stolen-goodbyes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.