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Read Some Resonant Excerpts from Radical Endurance

The venerable Minnesota Women’s Press, for their September 2024 issue, has selected several short excerpts from Andy’s new memoir, Radical Endurance: Growing Old in an Age of Longevity, and created an article from them titled “Presenting as My Age.” The issue’s theme is “Aging Bodies,” a phenomenon we can’t escape!

Read at womenspress.com

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.

Read the article at healthcentral.com

Listen to Andy’s Podcast Conversation with Irish Grief Expert Liz Gleeson

Liz Gleeson is the founding director of Shapes of Grief, an online training organization for grief counselors. She is also an expert on prolonged grief disorder. To listen, go to your favorite podcast platform and search for Shapes of Grief, episode 85, or listen on the Shapes of Grief website.

“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.

read: ‘Something just shut off’: Minnesota author’s memoir details the all-encompassing impact of ‘complicated’ grief

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