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Normalcy, introspection, & the experience of serious illness: Bill Gardner, Juliet Jacobsen, and Brad Stuart
How do people react when they hear they have a serious illness? Shock, "like a car is rushing straight at me" (says Bill Gardner on our podcast). After the shock? Many people strive, struggle, crawl even back toward a "normal" life. And some people, in addition or instead, engage in deep introspection on how to make meaning or live with or understand this experience of serious illness.
Today we talk with deep thinkers about this issue. Bill Gardner is a psychologist living with advanced cancer who blogs "I have serious news," Brad Stuart is an internist and former hospice director whose book…
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