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Interview with storyteller and poet Jenn Koiter

Interview with storyteller and poet Jenn Koiter

Released Tuesday, 28th September 2021
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Interview with storyteller and poet Jenn Koiter

Interview with storyteller and poet Jenn Koiter

Interview with storyteller and poet Jenn Koiter

Interview with storyteller and poet Jenn Koiter

Tuesday, 28th September 2021
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Today my guest is Jenn Koiter- a storyteller with a background in education, nonprofit work, and technology who has taught at colleges and universities. Jenn is also the author of So Much of Everything, a book of poetry she created in order to process her complicated feelings of loss and grief that she experienced after her ex-boyfriend died from suicide.

In this episode:
- Jenn uses her dead ex-boyfriend’s yoga mat
- How grieving compares to dog obedience training
- Needing to be ok with people not understanding the humor around death
- Why people don’t understand using humor to cope with death and grief
- The complicated feelings around someone dying of suicide after breaking up with them
- How using humor to cope is often initially a part of someone’s personality and it’s magnified during trauma
- Having a religious funeral for someone who was an atheist
- How humor brings us together as mourners and connects us as a part of our grief

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