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Published: Dec. 3, 2021, 6 a.m.

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As a therapist, I\u2019ve been honored by many to try to help them work through their grief. And it can be raw,\xa0 cutting off someone\u2019s ability to breathe deeply or feel like they\u2019re even breathing at all. Or want to. But when I met met Leslie Streeter, I knew I had to have her on SelfWork. Her story, told with candor, humor and grit, is about her husband Scott's death when suddenly she was thrust into being a single mom while trying to cope with life and grief.

Leslie Gray Streeter is an author, veteran journalist and speaker. whose memoir \u201cBlack Widow,\u201d was published in March 2020 by Little, Brown and Company. Until recently, she was the longtime entertainment and lifestyle columnist and writer for the Palm Beach Post. A native of Baltimore, Md and a University of Maryland graduate, she and her work have been featured in The Washington Post, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Seattle Times, The Atlantic, The Today show, SiriusXM, O, The Oprah Magazine and more. She lives with her son Brooks and her mother Tina in her hometown of Baltimore, which she moved back to last summer. She\u2019s a slow runner, an amateur vegan cook and a true crime and \u201cLaw and Order\u201d enthusiast.

You can see her light and spirit in her Today Show interview.\xa0This certainly wasn't the life that she could've possibly imagined. And yet, she's made it work. And she's written a book that makes her husband come alive.

Why am I offering this conversation now? Because in entering the holiday season, not only am I aware of millions of people around the world, and almost 800,000 people here in the US who have died from Covid. So each one of those people had families and friends, coworkers and neighbors who are grieving their absence. I wanted to offer to them the story of someone who got through \u2013 who has moved forward with her grief.

So in this episode of SelfWork, sponsored by BetterHelp, it's my honor to introduce you to Leslie Streeter.

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