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Grief can feel so lonely but talking about it, and listening to others share their grief experiences helps. In Season 3 of All There Is, Anderson Cooper continues his deeply personal exploration of grief in all its complexities. In moving and honest discussions, he learns from others who’ve experienced life-altering losses. All There Is with Anderson Cooper is about the people we lose, the people left behind, and how we can live on – with loss and with love. |

Visit the All There Is online grief community at cnn.com/allthereisonline

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After suppressing grief for decades, Anderson reached out earlier this year to psychotherapist and author Francis Weller to ask for help. In this very personal conversation Anderson reveals some of what he’s learned about the strategies he developed as a child to shield himself from grief and why those strategies are now working against him. Visit the All There Is online grief community at cnn.com/allthereisonline  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Whoopi Goldberg sits down with Anderson for a candid and moving conversation about the life and deaths of her mother Emma Johnson and her brother Clyde. Visit the All There Is online grief community at cnn.com/allthereisonline Help is available if you or someone you know is struggling with suicidal thoughts or mental health matters. In the US: Call or text 988, the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline. Globally: The International Association for Suicide Prevention and Befrienders Worldwide have contact information for crisis centers around the world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Andrew Garfield's mother Lynne died from pancreatic cancer in 2019. In this deeply moving and emotional episode Andrew talks with Anderson about how grief is now the only way for him to feel close to his mom again. “The wound is the only route to the gift,” Andrew says. “The grief and the loss are the only route to the vitality of being alive.” Visit the All There Is online grief community at cnn.com/allthereisonline Watch this conversation on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ruMKk26pW8 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Season 3: All There Is

Season 3: All There Is

2024-10-0501:431

Grief never goes away but we can learn to live with it and learn from it. In Season 3 of All There Is, Anderson Cooper continues his deeply personal journey to understand his own feelings of grief in all its complexities, and in moving and honest discussions, learn from others who’ve experienced life-altering losses. All There Is with Anderson Cooper is about the people we lose, the people left behind, and how we can live on – with loss and with love. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Sharing Our Grief

Sharing Our Grief

2024-02-0735:264

This episode, the season finale, is a reminder that none of us is alone in our grief. Anderson shares some of the thousands of extraordinarily moving voicemail messages he’s received from listeners. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Charlie Shelin was an exceptionally bright child who worked hard for years to keep the dark thoughts in his head from consuming him. In this moving conversation, his dad, Randy, talks with Anderson about Charlie’s mental health struggles and the layers of grief their family has lived with for years.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Shamayim Harris, known in Detroit as Mama Shu, knows all too well the pain of loss. In 2007 her 2-year-old son Jakobi Ra was killed in a hit and run accident, and in 2021 her other son Chinyelu was murdered. Mama Shu talks with Anderson about how she worked hard to, in her words, “turn my grief into glory and my loss into love.” Focusing on one block in her neighborhood, she began cleaning up blighted properties and has created the non-profit Avalon Village, which aims to be a safe and welcoming space for kids in her community. “This is grief,” she tells Anderson, “it just looks beautiful.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
When best-selling author Nicole Chung’s adoptive parents died, she felt all alone. Her family had unraveled, and there was no one else who remembered what she was like as a little girl. Nicole speaks with Anderson about carrying her parents’ memories alone and the search for her birth parents, which led to a series of surprising discoveries. You can call and leave a message at: (917) 727-6818. We'd especially like to hear if there's something that you've learned in your grief that might help others. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
When Naomi Judd died by suicide in 2022, after a long struggle with mental illness, her daughter Ashley found her. In this deeply moving, revealing, and insightful conversation Ashley Judd talks about the trauma she has worked hard to face, the grief she now feels, and how her mother’s spirit is still very much alive in her life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
The podcast is taking a short break, new episodes of All There Is will return January 10th. In the meantime, we are sharing Anderson's powerful conversation with Stephen Colbert from the first season of the podcast. Can we learn to love the things we most wish had never happened? Can we really become grateful for grief? Heartbreak? The deaths of loved ones? Stephen believes we can and explains why and how. It is a deeply moving, thought-provoking, and at times funny conversation that Anderson says has had a major impact on his life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Love, Loss and Parenting

Love, Loss and Parenting

2023-12-2034:443

Amanda Petrusich, a talented writer for The New Yorker who often covers music, lost her husband, Bret Stetka, suddenly in 2022. Their daughter, Nico, was just 13 months old. Amanda talks with Anderson about grieving an unexpected loss, while navigating life as a single parent. They also explore the constantly changing nature of grief, the role music has played for Amanda and how she talks about Bret with her daughter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
The Greatest Loss

The Greatest Loss

2023-12-1331:561

Katie Talman, was grieving an unimaginable loss when she left a message for Anderson Cooper, one of more than a thousand voicemails he received from podcast listeners. Anderson called Katie back at her home in Texas and she agreed to share her story. When Katie was 23 weeks pregnant, her daughter Everly died. “Nothing could have prepared me to deliver a stillborn baby,” Katie says. The grief over her daughter’s death, the silence in the delivery room, the inability of some in her life to understand or even acknowledge the depth of her pain - Katie and Everly’s story is a moving testament to a family’s love and a mom’s courage in the face of the greatest loss.    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
A President’s Grief

A President’s Grief

2023-12-0637:489

“You gotta come home, there's been an accident.” It was 1972 when Joe Biden heard the news that changed his life forever: his wife Neilia and 13-month-old daughter Naomi were killed in a car crash. Decades later his beloved son Beau died of cancer. In this deeply personal interview President Biden reveals how he has found solace in his grief and learned to search for purpose beyond his pain. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Facing Our Grief

Facing Our Grief

2023-11-2935:0413

Grief doesn’t just go away, no matter how hard we may want it to. So how can we live with it and learn from it? These are the questions Anderson Cooper struggles to answer after the first season of All There Is ends. Anderson spends months playing more than 1000 unheard voicemail messages about grief from podcast listeners, and once again finds himself in his basement surrounded by boxes, full of letters, photos and objects that belonged to his late father, mother, and brother. He also talks with psychotherapist and author Francis Weller, whose book “The Wild Edge of Sorrow” gives him hope. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Season 2: All There Is

Season 2: All There Is

2023-11-1601:35

Do we ever move on from grief, or do we just learn to live with it? In Season 2 of All There Is, Anderson Cooper continues his deeply personal journey to understand his own feelings of grief in all its complexities, and in moving and honest discussions, learn from others who’ve experienced life-altering losses. All There Is with Anderson Cooper is about the people we lose, the people left behind, and how we can live on – with loss and with love. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
When Anderson Met Audie

When Anderson Met Audie

2022-11-1848:153

Anderson is pleased to present the first episode of Audie Cornish's new podcast: The Assignment... but first a conversation on the intimacy of podcasting with Audie and Anderson. Fiery Twitter threads and endless news notifications never capture the full story. Each week on The Assignment, host Audie Cornish pulls listeners out of their digital echo chambers to hear from the people who live the headlines. From the sex work economy to the battle over what’s taught in classrooms, no topic is off the table. You can find The Assignment wherever you get your podcasts. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
You Are Not Alone

You Are Not Alone

2022-11-0246:054

Anderson shares poignant and profound messages from listeners and reflects on the conversations he's had during the first season of the podcast. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Writer and poet Elizabeth Alexander talks with Anderson about how she and her two children coped with the sudden death of her husband, Ficre, ten years ago, and the recent death of her father. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Artist and composer Laurie Anderson reflects on the death of her husband, rock legend Lou Reed and also her beloved dog Lolabelle. She talks with Anderson about grief and the unexpected feelings she has experienced surrounding loss. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Anticipatory Grief

Anticipatory Grief

2022-10-1242:295

Filmmaker Kirsten Johnson lost her mother to Alzheimer's in 2007, now her father has dementia, and is disappearing before her eyes. As Kirsten struggles with grief over the inevitable loss of her father, she finds ways to celebrate his life and get closer to him. She tells Anderson it's never too late to get to know someone you love more deeply even after they are gone. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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juana Witmore

As a regular listener of All There Is, I just want to say how profoundly impactful this podcast has been for me. Anderson's ability to create such a safe space for open conversations about grief is truly remarkable. Each episode resonates deeply, and I appreciate how he navigates these sensitive topics with both honesty and compassion. Hearing others share their experiences has not only helped me feel less alone in my own grief but has also provided valuable insights into the complexities of loss. Thank you for fostering this community where we can all learn to live on with both love and loss. Keep up the amazing work! https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/expert-branded-greaseproof-wrap-manufacturers-zdz7f

Oct 25th
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Patty Delaney Zivkovic

really enjoyed your guest tonight. It must be hard to be the last one in your birth family

Oct 23rd
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Mona Peterson

I've been thoroughly impressed with 'All There Is with Anderson Cooper.' Anderson's ability to delve deep into each topic while maintaining such a compassionate and thoughtful perspective is truly remarkable. The stories are compelling, and the insights are profound. https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-wax-paper-198786442/episode/wax-paper-in-the-kitchen-tips-198786859/

Aug 3rd
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UberButter

Anderson Cooper always amazes me with his honesty and true emotions. ❤️

May 23rd
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UberButter

such a beautiful episode

Feb 1st
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j law

Beautiful. So uplifting. What a Light this woman is 🙏

Jan 24th
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Jan 18th
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Pamela Kochis

What Ashley said about trauma spoke to me. We found out my mother has terminal cancer and 6 months to live. "live" isn't the correct word. She slowly and painfully died for 5 months. Nothing prepares you for that horror. It was months of watching such pain and suffering. Ashley's words, about the trauma resonates with me. One of the difficulties I have is that unless you have experienced this type of suffering, people have no idea and can sometimes minimize it.

Jan 10th
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Trent Brown-Nguyen

WOW. So beautiful. I recently lost my Nan and my Uncle. This podcast is invaluable. Thank you so such! Arguably the most beautiful podcast episode I have ever heard...

Dec 28th
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Bea Kiddo

I love both of these incredible men.

Dec 18th
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Julieta A

what an amazing episode. I cried, I smiled. I don't care about his politics right now, he's a truly good man.

Dec 6th
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Carlos Barron

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Dec 2nd
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Valerie Marasco Whritenour

What a beautiful story. You’re so blessed to have had such a wonderful relationship with your Mom. My relationship with my Mom was always up and down. This podcast made me really look at where I went wrong. When she passed, I really didn’t grieve because I was so anygry. She had so much pain in her life and I tried to be understanding but I lost site of it somewhere in my own pain. I was too selfish to let shit go. Thank you for helping me see a little clearer. I’ve always been a fan but never of yours Anderson. My admiration for you has only increased.

Aug 26th
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Craig M. Thompson

Anderson, lastnight was my first time joining in and listening to all there is, i really enjoyed it. Although quite sad in places i pulled through. As for some this is all there is......

Feb 22nd
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Linda Noels

Thank you Anderson.

Feb 8th
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Traci Sele

Over the years I've found that part of me will never let go of the sadness, loss, anger, frustration, I feel over losing my person. He died way too soon. In a way it's almost as though in doing so it'd dishonor his memory and how much he meant to me. but, I also think that's arrogant, why is it that I, what is it within me thinks ... what does holding on in that way serve anyone? it serves me I suppose. and until I figure out another way, which may mean letting go, even just a bit more, .. I may never figure out how to honor him better. it's hard to say. death sucks.

Jan 11th
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Ju Bi

I became the last surviving member of my family last month. Divine intervention directed me here. Such a comfort listening to it now

Jan 10th
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Jenny Mummert

Extremely meaningful. I went through the dementia journey with my mom. It was profound, and I will be forever grateful that we became best gal pals for the last 5 years of her life. It was during that time that I came to truly love her.

Nov 30th
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Elaine Rabjohn

Anderson. I am moved to tears. this episode was very poignant and eye opening. we are all in a club we don't want to be in. Sisters, brothers,aunts uncles, sons and daughters in grief. Truly amazing and compassionate approach to sharing g. I will look forward to a second season should you find it in your heart. Thank you so much for opening your heart and life to us all

Nov 2nd
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