The School of Professional Studies at Western Connecticut State University will present a free talk about dealing with grief by beloved local physician and author Dr. Marianne Bette at 4 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 16, in the Student Center Theater on the university’s Midtown campus, 181 White St. in Danbury.
Bette is a retired 40+-year family physician from Southbury who has suffered profound losses in her life and has counseled grieving patients throughout her medical career. She has written two books on loss and grieving: “Living with a Dead Man: A Story of Love,” that chronicles her first husband’s battle with cancer, and her current book, “Living with a Grieving Heart: Thoughts from a Grief Warrior,” a personal story of her transformative journey from heartbreak to gratitude and how she reclaimed the exuberance of life.
Dr. Joan Palladino, Dean of WestConn’s School of Professional Studies, invited Bette to speak to students and the larger community.
“We are having Dr. Bette come and talk about dealing with grief because it is important to learn how to deal with it,” Palladino said. The professions in our School of Professional Studies — Nursing, Social Work and Criminal Justice — experience grief in their jobs on a regular basis. They not only have to help others deal with a loss, but also have to find ways to manage grief on the job within their own lives.”
For more information, contact WCSU Communications and Marketing at pr@wcsu.edu.