Podcast #3 - How Death Has Helped Me Live

Caitlin McColl
Dose Of Wonder
Published in
6 min readSep 29, 2024

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Hello and welcome to Episode 3 of my podcast, Dose of Wonder!

I’m excited — I actually have intro and outro music now!

And I edited this episode with proper editing software, and used an actual microphone instead of recording through my laptop’s microphone, so hopefully the quality is better (and will continue to be going forward). All thanks to my husband who has years of experience recording his own podcasts (on soccer).

Without further ado, you can listen to the podcast here (it's only 12 minutes!):

But here’s some more background to stuff I talk about in my podcast today, about grief and death of various family members in the last almost 9 years.

After my mom died in 2015, I immediately went to the library and got a stack of books (yes, actual books!) on grief/death/loss, and read them all in an attempt to come to grips with losing her to alcoholism. We…

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Caitlin McColl
Dose Of Wonder

Writer on mental health, grief & loss, mindfulness, running, life musings (+ fiction and poetry!). ❤️coffee & dogs. Vancouver 🇨🇦