MAS 100 and on Zoom

*Lunch will be served

Parking lot #6 to MAS
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Lisa is a graduate of Brookdale Community College and Monmouth University. Lisa has studied abroad at the Sorbonne (University of Paris) where she earned her Certificate of Language and Culture as well as Kings College in Wales where she studied English literature. At Brookdale, she currently works as an academic tutor of English as a Second Language and French in addition to working as an adjunct instructor of ESL. She has worked at Brookdale since 1997.

She has led a mostly happy life and has enjoyed helping people throughout her career and in her personal life. She had many friends and was very involved in her family life. All that changed in November of 2022 when Lisa lost her youngest daughter to alcohol addiction, changing her life and her family’s lives forever. Losing a child to addiction and mental illness led to feelings of shame, anger, and confusion—the confusion that distances the griever from their social groups. Having lost her daughter to alcoholism showed her that our culture is not ready to deal with losing a child, especially to addiction.

In this talk, Lisa will share suggestions, stemming from her painful experience, on how to approach someone who is grieving an unimaginable loss while shouldering the burden of stigmatized grief and ways to handle it, both as the ones who grieves and those who seek to help but are at a loss for ways to do so.

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