Thursday, October 28, 2021 | 6pm
ADMISSION: This online program is free
How do we find the tools we need to grieve? In this talk, creative thinker and writer Merissa Nathan Gerson, author ofForget Prayers, Bring Cake: A Single Woman’s Guide to Grieving, shares her journey and the tools that guided her through grief in conversation with Jessica Lanyadoo. As Publishers Weekly writes, "Gerson debuts with an illuminating memoir-cum-guide to dealing with grief as a single woman... [her] willingness to explore the depth and breadth of personal loss will help those grieving know they are not alone.”
This program is presented by the Graduate Theological Union in partnership with The Contemporary Jewish Museum.
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Merissa Nathan Gerson, author of Forget Prayers, Bring Cake: A Single Woman’s Guide to Grieving, is a New Orleans–based writer, professor, and sex educator. Her written work has appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Times, Playboy, and Tablet, among others, and she was the inherited trauma consultant for Amazon’s Emmy Award–winning television show, Transparent.
Jessica Lanyadoo is an astrologer and psychic medium with over twenty-five years of consulting experience. She is the author of Astrology for Real Relationships, and is the host of the popular astrology and advice show Ghost of a Podcast. For her, no topic is taboo or unworthy of kindness. Check out her website at loevlanyadoo.com and follow her on social media (@jessica_lanyadoo) for more of her down-to-earth wisdom.
Public Programs at The CJM are made possible thanks to generous support from Grants for the Arts and the Walter & Elise Haas Fund.