Rebecca Soffer
Cofounder of Modern Loss
Rebecca Soffer is cofounder of Modern Loss, which offers creative, meaningful and encouraging content and global community addressing the long arc of grief. She is also the author of the bestselling “The Modern Loss Handbook: An Interactive Guide to Moving Through Grief and Building Your Resilience” (Running Press, 2022) and coauthor of the book “Modern Loss: Candid Conversation About Grief. Beginners Welcome”, which The Strategist named a best book on loss for a younger generation. She has been featured across media, including on CBS Mornings, CBS Sunday Morning, NPR, CNN, and CTV; spoken internationally at Chicago Ideas Week, HBO, Capital One, and Amazon; and written for outlets such as The New York Times, TIME, Marie Claire, Glamour and NBC. Rebecca is a Peabody Award-winning former producer for The Colbert Report and a Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism alumna.
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A Relationship Tied Together by Memories
Rebecca Soffer, cofounder of Modern Loss, which offers creative, meaningful and encouraging content and global community addressing the long arc of grief, noticed recently that her late father’s tallit still had the braids she had made as a child on the tzitzit during long hours at high holiday services. She realized that those quiet moments, when she was trapped in temple with her dad at her side, playing with the shawl had become one of her favorite rituals connecting the two of them. Those braids still tie them together, even just through the memories. Read more.
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Reboot Ideas
Reboot Ideas and JW3 Present: The Modern Loss Handbook
Bestselling author Rebecca Soffer (Modern Loss) joined renowned music journalist Pete Paphides (Broken Greek) on Oct. 19 at JW3 in London for a candid, warm, and even humorous conversation exploring Rebecca’s new book, “The Modern Loss Handbook,” and the global movement to destigmatize the universal experience of grief while encouraging people to find meaning and live richly. This program united two best sellers from opposite sides of the pond to explore the common themes of loss, renewal and transformation. Watch the recording here.