E168 - Lindsey Whissel Fenton - Speaking Grief

Lindsey Whissel Fenton is a senior producer at WPSU, the PBS/NPR affiliate station in Central Pennsylvania. She’s an Emmy award-winning storyteller who is passionate about using public media to build empathy. Lindsey produced, directed, and wrote the documentary Speaking Grief and continues to produce content for the initiative’s website and social media presence. 

In this episode we talk about Shotokan karate, how karate relates to grief, the Speaking Grief documentary, learning to speak grief, holding space for grief, grief dreams mentioned within the documentary interviews, and her own grief.

To view the Speaking Grief documentary (starting August 30, 2020) visit https://speakinggrief.org/

SOCIAL MEDIA:

Facebook: @wpsugrief

Instagram: @wpsugrief