S3 - EP35 - Permission To Be Me: Tabby Kerwin on Love, Loss and Becoming Herself After Widowhood

In this deeply honest episode, Rosie Moss sits down with author, coach and mental health advocate Tabby Kerwin to talk about the kind of love that shifts you, the kind of loss that breaks you, and the slow, unexpected freedom that can grow from grief.

Tabby takes us inside her story with Simon, her late husband. First they were musicians side by side, then partners wrapped in intimacy, humour and shared purpose. They weathered an untypical cancer journey together, marked by delayed diagnosis, brutal treatment, remission, and a devastating infection that cut their time short.

This is a conversation about love, but it is equally about survival. Tabby opens up about parenting through bereavement, allowing her son Ollie autonomy in his grief, and the hidden pain of carrying the truth alone until she finally let family in before goodbye.

We talk about mental health, inherited expectations, and the teenage grief that shaped her early adulthood. Tabby reflects on the moment widowhood became permission rather than punishment, letting her live truthfully, speak publicly, and refuse shame.

She shares the solace she found in tiny rituals, prawn dumplings, Grey’s Anatomy, community, and fierce honesty. And she names the bittersweet peace of being content in her own company post loss, no longer running but coming home to herself.

If you have ever loved deeply, lost painfully, or rebuilt quietly, this episode will meet you where you are.

Episode Highlights / Show Notes

• Love and connection through music

• A complex cancer journey and sudden loss

• Parenting and autonomy in grief

• Mental health, teenage bereavement and identity

• Choosing authenticity and advocacy over silence

• Widowhood as a turning point into selfhood

• Finding peace in singleness, community and purpose

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