Carolyn Gartner lives in Brooklyn, NY and has had her own private therapy practice since 2019. Before then, she had been a home hospice social worker for eight years, a powerful experience which became the basis for her book “Death, Brooklyn and the Gritty Side of Grace”. The book is now also available as an audio book from Audible. Carolyn and host Michael Whidden have known each other since their children first went to school together.
Our discussion includes, among other things:
*her responsibilities as a hospice social worker
*death and how people cope with it
*the sociological/ethnic/religious/economic diversity of her case load as a hospice worker
*death as motivation to have a positive impact and appreciate our interconnectedness
*her career path from television commercial work to social work
*social media’s negative impact when we compare ourselves to others
Carolyn finds hope in her clients’ human spirit to connect and improve.