Casey Mulligan Walsh
-embracing the full catastrophe-
-embracing the full catastrophe-
Casey Mulligan Walsh
We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
-Joseph Campbell
Motina Books ~ February 18, 2025
"Am I not a man? Of course I've been married. Wife, house, kids, everything...the full catastrophe!"
-Zorba, "Zorba the Greek," the movie
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- Next Avenue/The Perks of Being a Late Bloomer
- Canvas Rebel/Meet Casey Mulligan Walsh
- Atticus Review/My review of Eileen Vorbach Collins' Love in the Archives
- Build Upon the Good Podcast/Casey Mulligan Walsh and Living With Grief and Joy
- Five Minute Lit/Even Here
- Emerge Journal/Aspirations
- Hippocampus Magazine/My review of Rachel Dickinson's The Loneliest Places
- Where I'm From, a conversation with Alyson Shelton on Instagram Live
- Liminal Spaces of Struggle and Not Knowing: An interview with Casey Mulligan Walsh by Camille U. Adams
- Jane Ratcliffe's Beyond/Lullaby and Goodnight
- Salt Water Find Your Harbor/Still
- Split Lip Magazine/Still ~ NOMINATED FOR BEST OF THE NET!
- New York Times Tiny Love Story/Joy Waits for No One: To Care and Carry
- The Manifest-Station/Future Past
- Next Avenue/Stoop Time: When Living in the Moment is Harder Than It Seems
- HuffPost Personal/This is What No One Tells You About Losing a Child
- WebMD Blogpost/The Emotional Impact of Living with Familial Hypercholesterolemia
- The Keepthings/The Clothes Brush
- The Good Men Project/Embracing the In-Between
- The Personal Element Podcast, Episode Two/A How-To for Desperate Times
- Circulation: Genomics and Precision Medicine/Life By the Numbers
- The Under Review/The Beautiful Game
- Barren Magazine/A How-To for Desperate Times
- Brevity Nonfiction Blog/The Space Between the Light
- Modern Loss/Screening Calls
- Meeting Grief With Grace/Peg Morse Conway Interviews Me
Welcome
I’m a wife, mother, stepmother, mother-in-law, Mimi to ten beautiful grandkids, and friend to more women and men who inspire and uplift me than I can count. Lucky me.
My own life has been filled with relentless tragedy and wonderful joy, the low lows and high highs and everything in between. As a teenage orphan, a 20-year-old without parents or siblings, later as the parent of a child who died (why is it we still have no name for this?), I’ve seen that grief and joy can and do coexist, that how we choose to see the world impacts who we become. That, in the end, it’s all about connection. This principle, which has guided me in my search for meaning in loss, is the focus of my memoir, THE FULL CATASTROPHE: All I Ever Wanted, Everything I Feared, which I’m delighted to announce is forthcoming from Motina Books on February 18, 2025.
A former speech-language pathologist, these days I write memoir and creative nonfiction and travel with my husband, Kevin. We’re both ambassadors for The Family Heart Foundation, an organization devoted to raising awareness of familial hypercholesterolemia, the common yet vastly undiagnosed genetic disorder that has impacted my family across generations, as well as elevated Lp(a). I also write a patient perspective blog about this topic for WebMD. Please click on the links above and learn more. You may prolong or save a life.
I’d be honored to walk a while with you on your own journey through this messy life.
