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Listen to Andy’s podcast interview with Gloria and Heidi Horsley of Open to Hope
With more than two million visitors per month, Open to Hope is a sought-after website for sharing our stories of loss, grief, and healing. In this 18 minute visual podcast, Andy discusses both her books, After Effects: A Memoir of Complicated Grief and Restoring Flexibility: A Gentle, Yoga-Based Practice to Increase Mobility at Any Age. The result is delightful!
“I lived with that acute, prolonged grief for almost a decade.”
Andy was honored to be featured in “What is Prolonged Grief Disorder?,” award-winning health writer Erin Boyle’s excellent article for HealthCentral. This thoroughly researched article combines expert information about grief gone awry with the tragic stories of two women, one of whom is Andy, who suffered from prolonged, debilitating grief.
Listen to Andy’s Podcast Conversation with Irish Grief Expert Liz Gleeson
Reviews of After Effects
Andrea Gilats has given us a beautifully written story of the heartbreaking problem of complicated grief… Her detailed, honest account of almost two decades of intense suffering after the loss of her beloved life partner will help others understand that there is no shame in grieving this way—that grief is a form of love.
—Katherine Shear, M.D., founding director, Columbia University Center for Prolonged Grief
In this illuminating, thoughtful and beautifully written memoir, [Andrea] Gilats takes us on her journey as she experienced, for 10 years, prolonged or “complicated” grief. …When you finish the last paragraph you are going to think, “I’d like to meet this woman.”
—Mary Ann Grossmann, books editor, St. Paul Pioneer Press (Read the full review)
Gilats’ story of loss, despair and eventual peace is a roadmap of despair and recovery. …A brave memoir indeed!
—Laurie Hertzel, books editor, Minneapolis Star Tribune. (Read the full review)
Watch the Video of the After Effects Launch Event
“The hardest part of writing about my grief was reliving it.”
In this interview with Whitney Jacobson for the Split Rock Review, a literary journal published by the University of Minnesota, Duluth, I discuss my writing process as I worked on After Effects, I hail some books and authors who have influenced me, and I talk about how I’m living my own version of a writing life.
read: Interview with Whitney Jacobson in the Split Rock Review
“Something just shut off in me.”
In this candid interview published in MinnPost, Minnesota’s nationally respected nonprofit online newsroom, I talk with health and addiction journalist Andy Steiner about the differences between normal grief and complicated grief. I also discuss how, after more than a decade of disabling grief, I found my way out of the depths of sadness, and why I feel memoirs are such powerful healing tools.
Listen to Andy’s podcast interview with Gloria and Heidi Horsley of Open to Hope
With more than two million visitors per month, Open to Hope is a sought-after website for sharing our stories of loss, grief, and healing. In this 18 minute visual podcast, Andy discusses both her books, After Effects: A Memoir of Complicated Grief and Restoring Flexibility: A Gentle, Yoga-Based Practice to Increase Mobility at Any Age. The result is delightful!
“I lived with that acute, prolonged grief for almost a decade.”
Andy was honored to be featured in “What is Prolonged Grief Disorder?,” award-winning health writer Erin Boyle’s excellent article for HealthCentral. This thoroughly researched article combines expert information about grief gone awry with the tragic stories of two women, one of whom is Andy, who suffered from prolonged, debilitating grief.
Listen to Andy’s Podcast Conversation with Irish Grief Expert Liz Gleeson
Reviews of After Effects
Andrea Gilats has given us a beautifully written story of the heartbreaking problem of complicated grief… Her detailed, honest account of almost two decades of intense suffering after the loss of her beloved life partner will help others understand that there is no shame in grieving this way—that grief is a form of love.
—Katherine Shear, M.D., founding director, Columbia University Center for Prolonged Grief
In this illuminating, thoughtful and beautifully written memoir, [Andrea] Gilats takes us on her journey as she experienced, for 10 years, prolonged or “complicated” grief. …When you finish the last paragraph you are going to think, “I’d like to meet this woman.”
—Mary Ann Grossmann, books editor, St. Paul Pioneer Press
(Read the full review)
Gilats’ story of loss, despair and eventual peace is a roadmap of despair and recovery. …A brave memoir indeed!
—Laurie Hertzel, books editor, Minneapolis Star Tribune.
(Read the full review)
Watch the Video of the After Effects Launch Event
“The hardest part of writing about my grief was reliving it.”
In this interview with Whitney Jacobson for the Split Rock Review, a literary journal published by the University of Minnesota, Duluth, I discuss my writing process as I worked on After Effects, I hail some books and authors who have influenced me, and I talk about how I’m living my own version of a writing life.
read: Interview with Whitney Jacobson in the Split Rock Review
“Something just shut off in me.”
In this candid interview published in MinnPost, Minnesota’s nationally respected nonprofit online newsroom, I talk with health and addiction journalist Andy Steiner about the differences between normal grief and complicated grief. I also discuss how, after more than a decade of disabling grief, I found my way out of the depths of sadness, and why I feel memoirs are such powerful healing tools.
Photos of Andy by Sara Tucker
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Books bring meaning to our lives at times when we most need to feel that we are not alone.
Books bring meaning to our lives at times when we most need to feel that we are not alone.
Photos of Andy by Sara Tucker