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Bestselling Ghostwriter Samantha Rose: "I Let My Dead Mother Answer the Questions She Left Behind"

Bestselling Ghostwriter Samantha Rose: "I Let My Dead Mother Answer the Questions She Left Behind"

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 If you've ever lost someone and felt the crushing irony of wanting to call them about their own death, episode 408 of Grief and Happiness is for you. Bestselling ghostwriter Samantha Rose joins Emily to share how losing her mother to suicide forced her to write the story she never expected — including the unconventional practice of writing her mother back to life to answer the questions she left behind. Raw, surprising, and darkly funny, this conversation will change the way you think about grief and healing.In This Episode, You Will Learn:(00:54) Samantha Rose's journey from ghostwriter to first-time author(01:54) Losing her mother Susan to suicide — and the shock that followed(04:41) The painful irony of losing her one person to call(06:04) How writing her mother back to life shaped her memoir(07:22) What the page revealed that therapy could not(09:04) Why surrendering to grief is the only way through(12:27) Channeling grief out of your body: writing, movement, and beyond(16:29) Why talking openly about suicide and grief is freeing(18:21) Emily's Sunday grief writing community and the happiness practice(21:55) Why Samantha never wants to stop missing her mother(25:24) The rare friend who can witness grief without fixing it(27:02) What grieving people actually need — and what to stop saying(28:23) Why sharing memories of the lost is the greatest giftSamantha Rose is an Emmy Award–winning television writer and New York Times bestselling ghostwriter whose nearly twenty collaborations include Reese's Book Club picks and titles featured in the Wall Street Journal and Harper's Bazaar. As principal of Yellow Sky Media, she has spent two decades helping others tell their stories — and in 2025, stepped into the spotlight to tell her own with Giving Up the Ghost: A Daughter's Memoir (Sibylline Press), winner of the San Francisco Book Festival's Best Memoir honor.Samantha joined Emily to discuss the raw, compounded grief of suicide loss — specifically, losing her mother Susan, a vibrant journalist and feminist, the same morning they had spoken. She shared how working with a grief counselor sparked her memoir, and how writing evolved into channeled conversations with her mother on the page, unearthing buried truths along the way. Together, she and Emily explored grief's relentless presence, the importance of surrendering to it, and the healing power of community and open conversation about those we've lost.Connect with Samantha Rose:WebsiteInstagramLinkedInFacebookGet Samantha Rose’s books!Let's Connect: WebsiteLinkedInFacebookInstagramTwitterPinterestThe Grief and Happiness AllianceBook: Emily Thiroux Threatt - Loving and Living Your Way Through Grief Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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