MaryMac is a grief and bereavement specialist, host of The Mary Mac Show podcast, award-winning author, speaker, executive grief coach, consultant and founder of The Foundation For Grieving Children, Inc., the first national public charity of its kind which raises funds to assist, counsel, comfort and educate children, teens, young adults and their families after a loved one's death.
In this week’s episode, we speak about Christmas, Hanukkah and other year-end holidays and how we can best navigate through them.
If this is the first year without your special loved one, there are many decisions that need to be made to help yourself get through them with the least amount of stress and anxiety.
So listen in to Episode 211 and please be kind to yourself as we move into this season.
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In this week’s episode, we discuss how to prepare yourself as we encounter the year-end holidays.
No matter which ones you celebrate, Hanukkah, Christmas, New Years, or many others after a loved one has died, they just don’t feel the same.
If it’s the first holiday season since you have been bereaved, or it’s a few more, trying to feel happy and enjoying the seasons as you did in the past, can be an especially difficult task.
The main thing you need to know is that you don’t have to do all you’ve done in the past.
You can decide on a different path. You can curtail your events and celebrations this year and there is nothing wrong with doing that.
Your emotional state is different now and you must be sensitive to that and treat yourself with more care.
So listen in to Episode 210 and please be kind to yourself as we move into this season.
Or you can also listen into the audio only through youtube:
Also, I hope you will help support The Mary Mac Show by contributing a gift of any size that is comfortable for you so we can continue this important work. It would be much appreciated.
Please share our episodes with anyone you know who might benefit from this knowledge. Also subscribe to my podcast on whichever podcast platform you listened in.
Today marks the fourth-year anniversary of The Mary Mac Show podcast and I wanted to share the celebration with all my listeners around the world in 109 countries. Listen here!
We are thrilled that so many individuals from various backgrounds and cultures have graced us with their presence to learn more about how we can grieve the death of a loved one.
Our Mary Mac Journal Collection is also available for yourself or as gifts to others at this season. “My Journal” “My Grief Journal” “My Gratitude Journal” and “My Remembrance Journal” all help us as we go through this season of our life. Please visit amazon for all my books and journals – https://www.amazon.com/author/marymac
During this past year we held three podcast series – Bereaved Mothers, Grieving Children who lost parents young in life and Death By Fentanyl, parents sharing stories of the sudden deaths of their children to fentanyl, an opioid that has killed over 100,000 young people in the US alone in just 2022. They also share their advocacy work to bring awareness to this scourge so others won’t be harmed by it.
We would be very grateful for your subscription on Spotify, Apple and on YouTube to bring greater exposure to our work.
Everyone, at some time, will endure the death of a loved one, and need this information, education and comfort.
Meanwhile, I’d like to thank all my dedicated listeners around the world.
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In Episode 209, Part II, I speak with Dan Schneider of the Netflix Series “The Pharmacist” about his crusade against OxyContin Pill Mill Doctor and Purdue Pharma.
OxyContin has been causing deaths and addictions which ruined the lives of families for decades.
We speak at length about how young people were coming into his pharmacy with heavy duty prescriptions for OxyContin for 40 and 80 mgs each and sometimes many more at the same time of other drugs.
This led him to start doing research to find a pill mill doctor, Dr. Clegget, who was operating in a town nearby in the overnight hours. What doctor operates over night?
He tells me all he did to get her shut town because young people were dying in his area.
Later we talk about how pharmaceutical representatives were pressuring doctors all over the country to give their patients OxyContin for pain. They claimed it was only 1% addiction, but shortly found out that was a lie.
Watch this second episode about the crusade Dan has taken since 1999 to help people not become addicted to these horrific pain medications.
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Also, on Monday, December 4th, 2023, the US Supreme Court will hear the case of the Sackler family who is trying to claim bankruptcy so they will not be liable for the countless lawsuits brought against them by bereaved families.
If you can be there, arrive at 8am Eastern Time to join with other families to seek justice.
To learn more, watch Dopesick on Hulu, Painkiller on Netflix, Crime of the Century on HBO, etc.
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Also, along the way, Ms. America, lent her support to Dan on the opioid crisis:
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Below are sites, documentaries and books to learn the history of this, which has taken him on a 24-year journey.
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Thank you Dan for sharing your time and extensive knowledge with us. We appreciate you!
In Episode 208, Part I, I speak with Dan Schneider of the Netflix Series “The Pharmacist” about his son Danny’s murder by a drug dealer.
Danny Schneider as a baby
We discussed how he and his family had to work hard to obtain justice for his son’s murder.
Although law enforcement was involved, they did not always do their job.
Danny Schneider
Frustrated, because of the stigma involved which was widespread in 1999, Dan did what he could to find the killer.
In a twist of events, the person he thought was a witness, wound up being the killer.
Danny and his Girlfriend
And the Aunt of the killer would be the individual who only two days after the killing, had called Crime Stoppers, left a clear message on their telephone line, yet police never followed up.
We talk at length of how this all came together.
The Schneider Family and Danny’s Girlfriend
Dan, who is a pharmacist by trade, is very candid about how young Danny was taking drugs and how that affected he and his family.
In the second part of this interview, airing next week, we will speak about how it came to pass that Dan got involved in shutting down a pill mill doctor in his area who was selling OxyContin by the millions. And how this led to a fight with the Sackler Family who are owners of Purdue Pharma, the company who makes OxyContin.
Watch my conversation with Dan below:
Below are sites, documentaries and books to learn the history of this, which has taken him on a 24-year journey.
Let’s Be Friends:
Facebook – Ask Mary Mac
LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/marymccambridge/
Instagram – @themarymacshowpodcast
Twitter – @askmarymac
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Thank you Dan for sharing your time and extensive knowledge with us. We appreciate you!
xoxo
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