Aubrey Plaza is sharing words of wisdom from her grandmother about moving forward. The comments come more than nine months after her husband, Jeff Baena, died at 47.

On Wednesday, Oct. 8, Plaza, 41, appeared on Today to promote her third children’s novel, the Halloween-themed Luna and the Witch Throw a Halloween Party. During her interview with Savannah Guthrie, the co-anchor noted that the Parks & Recreation alum’s book is “an homage” to Plaza’s grandmother.

“Shoutout to my grandma, Margie,” Plaza responded. “She taught me from a very young age that life is a party and no matter what happens, we have to have fun and move forward, and so I think this book was inspired by that.”

“I think on both sides of my family, I have a lot of witchy women that raised me, so this is an homage to all the women in my life,” she added.

While Plaza did not specify whether she ties her grandmother’s advice to her grief related to her husband, the actress is only months removed from the sudden death of the filmmaker, whom she began dating in 2021. PEOPLE confirmed that the couple had married in 2021 after she referred to Baena as her “darling husband” in an Instagram post.

The Los Angeles Medical Examiner ruled Baena’s death a suicide in January; he and Plaza were separated at the time of his death. Plaza and Baena’s family described it as “an unimaginable tragedy” in a statement asking for privacy issued three days later.

Plaza opened up about her grief in the wake of Baena’s death for the first time publicly when she appeared on Amy Poehler’s podcast Good Hang back in August.