Think of “Joyful Grief” as a gratitude journal mixed with a healthy dose of humor and heartache from the perspective of a former medical mom on a mission to honor her late daughter’s legacy while joy-seeking for her threenage son.

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Lindzi Scharf is a writer, producer, and essayist whose work has appeared within the Los Angeles Times, The Today Show, L.A. Magazine, WWD, InStyle, Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, Vanity Fair Italia, Entertainment Weekly, and C Magazine. She is the proud mother of @evanfluencer and received an Honorable Mention in the prestigious “Best American Essays 2023” anthology for her L.A. Times piece about her daughter.

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