5. Congratulations on your diagnosis: As a free bonus, you'll be handling everyone else's feelings about it.

Dying To Ask with Christy B. · Jun 8, 2026 · 8m

5. Congratulations on your diagnosis: As a free bonus, you'll be handling everyone else's feelings about it.One of my closest friends called me today because she wasn't sure how to explain what I do to someone who needed help. I could have felt some kind of way about that. Instead it gave me this episode.In this one I talk about the part of my work that almost nobody names. When you get a diagnosis, the people who love you start having their own experience of it, and somewhere along the way you become the person managing the room. You soften the news so your sister can handle it. You reassure…