Topic Guide
What Is Grief and loss?
Grief and loss is a subject covered in depth across 1 podcast episode in our database. Below you'll find key concepts, expert insights, and the top episodes to listen to — all distilled from hours of conversation by leading experts.
Key Concepts in Grief and loss
Dense and busy breasts
A medical condition where breast tissue is so dense on screens that it's "hard to detect cancer" [47:40]. This necessitates more frequent and diverse screening methods, such as regular ultrasounds in addition to mammograms, for early detection.
Second sleep
A historical sleep pattern, common before widespread artificial lighting, where people would sleep for an initial 3-4 hours, wake up and engage in activities for a period, and then return to bed for a "second sleep" [60:40]. This contrasts with the modern ideal of a single, continuous 8-hour sleep.
What Experts Say About Grief and loss
- 1.Amanda Peet's early acting career was marked by severe stage fright for "highbrow" roles, while ironically excelling in "lowbrow" auditions like a "chopstick commercial or Days of Our Lives" [16:30].
- 2.Her acting philosophy involves transforming anxiety into energy by telling herself "I am where I am" [14:30] and avoiding "orchestrating a result" [25:00] by imagining discerning peers watching.
- 3.Peet recently received a breast cancer diagnosis for her "dense and busy breasts" [47:00] on the same "weekend from hell" [49:50] that her father passed away and her mother was in hospice care, an experience she documented in a New Yorker essay.
- 4.She found a passion for writing and producing, inspired to create "The Chair" by a "cancel culture" [41:30] incident at her Quaker school involving a teacher's controversial joke.
- 5.Peet's new film, *Fantasy Life*, won the audience award at South by Southwest and features a "brilliant" [58:50] script about a neurotic character with OCD, drawing her in as a producer and co-star.
- 6.Despite facing significant personal challenges, including her mother with Parkinson's living with her for seven years, Peet consistently presents with positivity and humor, leading Will Arnett to comment, "You wouldn't ever know anything's going on ever" [67:50].