Danielle Crittenden
speaker
349 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 6 Aug
Danielle Crittenden’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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They try and say, you know, you'll get through this.
It will be better.
And actually what you want people to say
This is the worst thing.
I'm so sorry.
This is terrible.
Let me go get you a glass of scotch.
You want them to lean into the suck, as it were.
And you don't want to be told how you're going to feel, how you should feel.
You want people to recognize the immensity of what you've lost.
Thank you.
As a mother and as a father, but I think especially as a mother, you are so used to putting your children first and their needs first.
And so when Miranda died, I just crawled under a rock.
Our children had to watch me crying, howling crying.
It was the first time I felt utterly unable to comfort them.
I mean, I tried, but I lost all capacity to be—it felt to me like a mother.
And not only that, I felt I was being cruel and selfish because the most natural thing in the world is to hold them and tell them it's going to be okay.
I couldn't do.
And I sometimes—
Missed the early grief, as horrible as it was, because I was still closer to her in time.
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