Reviews For All There Is with Anderson Cooper

Anderson’s podcast is my favorite and I don’t feel alone anymore. It has helped me so much

Thank you for this. I guess this Podcast has been on here for some time, but I just discovered and listened to it. It is one with you, Anderson Cooper, and Stephen Colbert discussing grief. In March 2024, my husband, age 79, was at the end of a two-year battle with two different cancers. California is one of seventeen states that has legalized end-of-life assisted suicide. My husband filed the paper work, secured three doctors’ affirmation that he was in his final six months of life and obtained the three-drug cocktail to end his life. He chose his day, let his family know, was surrounded by love and support and died. We carry on. While I think many (not all) marriages are characterized by being glorified roommates, my husband of 56 years and I were passionately and deeply in love with one another. We told each other every day how much we loved each other and how much we enjoyed just being together. We held hands on every morning walk and sitting together to watch TV in the evenings and in bed at night. His loss was deep and profound. I am finding in the months since losing him, the benefit of differentiating all the feelings I have to confront and cope with. I am I saddened by, but accepting of, the realization that my friends, even though dear and sincere, are social friends, and not people whose shoulders I can cry on. I am seeing the difference between depression, that I have faced for a few days and overcome, and sadness. That, although I would love someone to talk to and share with, on occasion, I am quite introverted and content to be alone, with no need to fill the space my husband left behind. Missing this man and sadness are now my constant companions. That is the reality of loss — at least the reality of my loss.

I just found out about your podcast after I saw your segment on Late Night with Stephen Colbert. Thank you for what you are doing to help others learn about grief. It IS a very lonely road until you discover others who are on a similar journey. I have been turning my grief into action since my son died of an overdose seven years ago. Doitforshelby.com is a public service initiative I started to help community members find help for those in need. Thanks again. Keep up the good work!

Thank you, Anderson, for this beautiful gift.

We are stronger together than alone. Your podcast has brought us together in grief. Thank you. And thank you for your honesty, emotional intelligence and humility. After the death of my parents all that there is went from sadness, emptiness and loss to gratitude, a sense of being whole because of my time with them and everything I have gained because I was blessed to be their daughter. I am now able to celebrate all that there is. I am a product of and a representative of two lives well lived. We need a community, a grief based on line community of grievers sharing experience strength and hope. (Guest speakers, weekend retreats, specialized groups, one on ones with grief coaches) Think of 10% Happier but with grief as the main subject. It can extend into programs in workplaces and schools. As you have shared by helping others we help ourselves. All that there is can be so much more than one could have ever imagined.

I just found your podcast. I’ve been really struggling since my parents passed. I had really take care of my mom after my dad died. He had very poor care at hospital he should not of died. As RN I had so much anger. My mom became ill I took care of her for 3 1/2 years it was hard but I am grateful for the time. I always question myself did I do enough. Everyone said I couldn’t of done more. She call me 10 times a day. It put stress on me but my husband and children. It’s hard everyday to get out of bed but I know they would not want me doing that.

I lost my father in May of last year and my mother in June of last year. I lost my brother 18 years ago when I was 21 and my brother was 24. No one has a similar story like mine except Anderson. Even the way his brother died and all that followed could’ve been a blueprint for my own brothers death. After my brother died It was always just me and my mom. My mom and dad weren’t together and my dad was remarried. I did everything with my mom and we became very close after my brother died. Losing my mother has brought back up so many emotions I never dealt with with my brother. I’m going thru my brothers things for the first time ever and I’m finding It hard to get rid of things that I really have no place or room for but have a sincere memory attached to them. I’m grieving for my brother in ways I never thought I would. Mostly I feel resentment he’s not here to help with everything and we could support one another during this time. My son was only 2 when my mom died so he will have no memory of anyone in my immediate family. The only thing that’s made me feel seen and made me feel like I’ll be ok is this podcast. For the first time in a long time someone has been thru the same things as me and can articulate all the emotions that I’m currently feeling. Anderson is a few years ahead of me in grieving his mom so listening to how he processed his mother and brother’s death has helped guide my healing journey. I really hope you continue to make this podcast and these episodes Anderson! I know It may not be easy emotionally to create and put out but please know you’re doing a world of good and helping ppl like me that need a life line like this podcast. For their grief to be seen. What you’re doing is very important I believe. Please continue creating!

...highly recommend!

Hey is this some Ministry of Truth stuff going on on YouTube? They took down your CNN footage of the Donald Trump audiotape where he shares classified documents. Tries to co-opt the people there to help him release the information to the public. Gets push back and admits that the documents are still classified. Someone said what crimes was he guilty of and the tape is clear. They also went after your 60 minutes piece on the Wisconsin fake elector interview. That’s gone too

I found this podcast (the first season) just as I was going to pick up my moms ashes. I listened to every episode and I found so much healing in the camaraderie of grief. Thank you Anderson for sharing your experiences, your feelings and giving others a platform to share their stories.

Next week will be 9 years since the kids and I lost their mother, my soulmate of 26 years, to suicide. The kids were only 3

People say it gets better with time. I’ve learned it just gets different.

I loss my mother suddenly last year while I was away on vacation. I spoke to her for less than two minutes the night before she died. She was not terminally ill-no signs that it would be our last conversation. In the early hours, my mom experienced heart failure. I have been silently struggling with the emotions of my loss and felt no one could understand the depth of my pain. Listening to others share their experience has gone such a long way in helping through my pain.

Ask for two

This show is so powerful. I’m a grieving mother and it’s a lonely horrific existence. But so helpful to know I’m not alone. I was ready to end my life last month but started in an antidepressant and will have to keep looking for the sun. Thanks so much for you beautiful loving words Anderson.

My gosh! I’m literally crying as I hear Everly’s mama cry! My heart breaks for her, her husband! There are no words to say that will make her feel better! Only she knows what makes her feel ok. I’m so sorry and like you said “SHE IS IN THE GREATEST PLACE” 💕💕May you dream and see Everly rejoice, smile and look at you guys with nothing but LOVE IN HER EYES😍🥰

I have cried and laughed. I hope this podcast stays! I lost my son in an accident he was 30.

What a beautiful first episode. My 95 year old mom died this past February. I have many complex feelings as I think about who she was as a person. We talked almost everyday. I miss doing that. Love this podcast, thank you

Listening to just the first episode helped me connect with the many griefs I’ve hidden so deeply, as well as helped me identify many peripheral losses I’ve yet to properly grieve. The language and perspectives encased in this this very moving episode are incredibly comforting, compelling, and inspiring. Thank you for this gem of a podcast situated as a city on a hill in the midst of the darkness of our society’s opposition to grief.

Would love have the opportunity to offer a hug, listen to them, console them and offer a chocolate bar to those experiencing grief. Chef Jeffray D. Gardner

I love this podcast. I think Anderson, that it may be the greatest work you ever do. I have worked with grieving persons my entire career and in retirement. This podcast is amazing, warm, funny, educational and caring. Please bring us more seasons& THANK YOU!

Thanks so much for this podcast. I am currently grieving the loss of my brother and listening to these stories made me feel less lonely. I am so grateful, please bring more. This journey is overwhelmingly painful to navigate alone. Thanks, Anderson!

I listened to season one right after we lost our baby boy and it was so helpful so I called in when Anderson invited folks to share how grief has impacted their lives. When I saw the episode The Greatest Loss come up I knew it would be difficult but one day I felt I could listen. Just a few seconds in my eyes filled with tears as I hear a recording of my own voice sharing how the grief I live with after losing our son has helped others and their grief has helped me. I am so honored that my story was included and hopefully will help someone else. Thank you. This podcast has meant so much to me.

I stumbled on this podcast completely unaware of what I was going to listen to that day. I thought “this is great; I can help others get through their grief by listening”. After the first one I came to realize that I myself had never really managed my own losses, only pushing down feelings I did not know what to do with. Andersen’s honesty and vulnerability connect with his audience and encourages in the gentlest of ways a good strong look in the mirror. Each of us deal with grief differently but at the core of this deep human experience we must not deny its impact on our own journey.

Great podcast as we all deal with loss in different shape and form..thank you

I lost my 27 year old son unexpectedly in Dec 2023 and have been numb and broken. Listening to your episodes over the last two months has made me feel a little less alone and opened my eyes to some new ways to view my grief.

Andersen does a beautiful job navigating the grief of his guests, as well as in sharing his own journey. Each episode is a deeply personal journey, unique to the guest, but familiar to all who have lost someone they love. Thank you for providing a guide of sorts, to help in moving thru the sadness so that we get back to the love. ❤️

Hearing you and Stephen Colbert a second time was every bit as valuable and emotionally reassuring as hearing you two the first time. Thank you. I guess I didn’t ever send this, so I will now. I just listened to you last episode, and I simply have to tell you that this experience, listening to this podcast, has been one of the most meaningful and helpful experiences of my life. At age 72, this is certainly saying something. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for this series, and be assured I will be watching for the opportunity of more.

Their conversation about grief changed how I felt about my own grief of losing my mother 1.5 years ago. I'm cautious of if/how much I reminisce with my sister/nephew for fear of being called weak/not upsetting him. I haven't had anyone to share my grief with, not really, but I am going to find someone. I cried through most of the episode, but they weren't all sad tears, a lot were thankful tears, that two of the men I respect most would let me into their hearts and share their grief, so I didn't feel alone. Beth

Thank you. I’ve listened only to the first episode and I’m so grateful for it. I will listen to it again, and to the others. I’m encouraged to proceed, I’m encouraged that I will survive my grief, that grief is normal, that there are others who grieve so long and so hard, and we can support each other. And that I will become stronger, perhaps, and wiser, and hopefully more compassionate and kinder to others. No one misses out on grieving. Thank you, Anderson for this podcast. It is extraordinary.

Beautiful reflections, conversations on death, the process, the loss, anger, hurt, love. Deeply felt. Real. The beauty is in the real. This is real. Thank you.

I somewhat randomly stumbled upon this podcast last night and listened to the recent episode with Stephen Colbert. I was blown away by how profound and intimate the conversation was. I cried along with both of you all the way through. What a beautiful contribution this podcast is to this complicated life we all live. So helpful to have something like this for me to process my own grief. Thank you for sharing yourself so deeply with the world. It is truly a gift and you are exceptional for putting your own grief out there so publicly.

I want to thank you for having the courage to share your grief for it has brought me to a point I’ve never allowed myself to get to. You see, I have never allowed myself to grieve for the loss of my loved ones because grieving their loss would mean accepting they’re no longer within arms reach! I’m grateful for what I learned while listening to each story that was shared. I look forward to hearing more in the future. Meanwhile, I will try to look inward, to try to recognize my grief for those I’ve lost so that by doing so I can be even more aware and appreciative for all who are still with me.

Anderson, for all of the important work that you do around the world with the news, who would’ve thought that this tremendous tragedy in your life would have resulted in your legacy? What you are doing here is what really matters everything else is a brilliant career and paycheck. I am sure you had no idea that you would be helping so many people that you are. I lost my only son on the day of my father‘s funeral. It has taken me three years to know that I haven’t lost my mind. After much reading and listening to talks, yours is the only one that has caused any healing for me. It brings ideas, insight, and has made a huge difference in my life so for that I thank you. I know you have suffered tremendously, but coming out like this, and putting it all out there to help others is tremendous and I applaud you.

This podcast has been so healing for me. To hear Anderson be so raw with his emotions reminds me it’s ok to cry. It’s ok to grieve. It’s ok to miss them. Thank you AC. You have brought a lot of light to those of us in a tunnel of darkness.

AMAZING

It was great to hear the many stories of grief and how we all deal with them. I lost my wife almost two years ago to cancer and find myself talking to her about my life today and can relate to a bit in every one of these stories. This podcast will make you laugh and cry and think, which are always good things to do.

For anyone who has ever lost someone…this podcast is a gift. Anderson’s raw emotion as he connects with others is beautiful. It’s what we all need in grief - to feel seen and not alone. Our culture is one that is grief illiterate and podcasts like this help make sense of the pain. Thank you Anderson. I believe this piece of work will be your legacy!

Thank you, Anderson, for this podcast. I lost me wife and life companion to brain cancer. We had been together since we met in college over 40 years ago. Her name was Michelle Leigh Katzaroff. And, like so many on your podcast, a great fear I have is that she will be forgotten. So, thank you for the opportunity to remember her to everyone.

Thank you, Anderson. If you never do another thing, your children will always have this. Of all the public things you have done…this is the one, Anderson, this is the one. And wherever they go in this world, forever, they will hear from total strangers about this gift. This podcast is your legacy.

We tend to speak of grief as something that only happens when someone dies. I’ve experienced grief over and over with the many losses of my father who made his final departure from this life over this past weekend. I’ve experienced the loss of my father, unbelievably, since the day I was born. He was not present at my birth. Of course, I couldn’t know this at the moment of my birth but this was a painful thing to learn when I was older and it is written on the pages of my life. He was lost to me again at 9 years of age when he left my mother. He was lost to me over and over throughout the years, missing the big and small events of my life. The small ones possibly being the most important ones - sharing day-to-day stories, feelings; everything about mundane daily life that weaves family members together. When he was present, there was some goodness, some love. But it always ended. There was never an assured “tomorrow”. Those special times could only be fit into some sort of schedule or had to be tied to a purpose (he used to take me to my orthodontist for my appointments). Then I lost him to ignorance. I did not know he had strokes, was diagnosed with prostate cancer and Parkinson’s disease. His second wife “didn’t want to bother” me or my siblings. Then he was lost to his illness - the few things we had shared in this life were forgotten. He didn’t know my name, he forgot everything about me, everything about us. And just over the last few months, he was lost to me forever. Taken to another country, becoming ill enough for me to never have the chance to hear his voice again, and, finally, may he rest in peace, passing away. I have not been given any information about his death. I do not know the date or time he passed. My siblings and I are suffering still, even beyond his death because the details surrounding his passing have been kept from us and so, have also been lost to us. God have mercy on the souls of those who deprived us of our right to know. May this pain lessen over time. His name was Hernando Pinzón. Say his name. Rest in peace, Daddy. All is forgiven. I hope you forgive us for not understanding, too.

They say grief is the price we pay for love , right? Anderson Thank you for this amazing podcast. It has me in tears, but I can relate to so many guests . The absence of a father , loss of a little one , and so much more . This gets me to my core . I am not alone in my grief even if I am alone . It sneaks up on you sometimes at times you least expect it . I hear you and feel you , and to me that is huge . Thank you.

This has become my podcasts for solo walks when I can tap in and connect to what Anderson and his guests share. Every episode helps me feel that I’m not alone, and that it’s just the opposite - I have joined a huge club that everyone joins eventually. Anderson and his guests can be your grieving friends who get it. Five stars.

My mom passed in Sept 2023. Your podcast came out shortly after. It helped and continues to help me feel not alone. Thanks to you and your guests for your vulnerability. Thank you for giving me a space to be in touch with mine.

Hearing today’s podcast from a father who lost his son, Charlie, who had mental illness, helped me realize there are so many parents out there who are and have gone through what I had struggled through with my son, Sebastian. Knowing as a parent that you are not alone is so important. More resources are needed to help guide and support parents who are living with children with mental illness. We will continue to tell the stories of our sons. You are not alone.

This podcast is good on so many levels. The guest’s willingness to speak and Anderson’s willingness to not only listen but share his own journey. It is not always easy to listen to the grief being shared but I benefit each time.

I stumbled upon your podcast half way through your first season and I was not quite sure why I was drawn to it.. maybe it’s because I adore you Anderson, maybe it’s because I studied death and dying in college, or maybe it just might of been that I was going to experience my very own unimaginable loss. As I listened each week to your podcast I would immediately call my father to share all of what I heard and how I was so drawn to this podcast, but why?? I now know and on Dec 22nd at 7:30am I went from listening to being a member of this community. My beloved father went to sleep and didn’t wake up. His heart ❤️ just stopped and I never got to say goodbye. It’s been over a year and as his anniversary of passing came I felt sad that I couldn’t hear your podcast and I had checked regularly to see if season 2 was out, but nope nothing and then just as his anniversary came and went I checked again and there is was season 2 and I thought I need this and thanked my pop because I know he had a hand in this. Thank you for doing season 2 even though it’s been extremely hard for you. Please know that you make and difference and thanks for giving me this community to help heal my forever ❤️‍🩹 broken heart and truly know I am not alone. With love, Erika

Thank you, Anderson, for this beautiful gift of a show. You have turned your grief into unique art and connected so many through your experience with loss.

I just listened to this episode with Randal Shelin and I’m literally panicking. My high schooler exhibits the same kind of behavior and emotions leaving homework til the last hour and then throwing a panic attack and “tantrum” when they miss the deadline. I’ve always assumed it was poor time management and procrastination. I’ve just learned from this episode that it could much more than That. I’m going to work on finding help now. They utter words like “I’m going to kill myself”, “I hate myself”, “I’m so stupid”, “I just wanna die”. And I ignore it thinking it’s just regret from realizing they spent too much time on social media. I’m going to get help . Thank you 🙏 for sharing your story. Charlie you’ll always be in our hearts. Rest in peace son.