Poema S10 016 | Amanda Held Opelt on Grief, World Wars & Queen Victoria

Poema Podcast

In this new episode, recorded pre-election 2024, Amanda Held Opelt joins me again, this time for a conversation about some major events in history & their impact on how our culture processes grief.

We talk at length about the two World Wars, and how different outcomes for different nations impacted how their cultures responded to them, and how it changed their culture. We explore how one bad response from WWI may have led to WWII and how the outcomes of both may have contributed to where we are now.

We also look at Queen Victoria, a monarch who experienced deep grief, which changed her life, her behaviour and relationships with others.

This episode is a fascinating insight into how grief shapes us individually and culturally.