NTM 379: Navigating the heavy feelings of love and loss: rites of passage in motherhood

Mothers often find themselves in the sandwich between beauty and pain, grief and gratitude; it’s hard sometimes to be moving forwards, but not quite ready to let go. Often what’s needed is attending to the grief that we’re experiencing in this transition phase. 

In this episode we discuss:

 ⁃ How to integrate grief into your own life

 ⁃ Grief around fertility and miscarriage 

 ⁃ Grief around endings like leaving babyhood, toddlerhood and fertility years

 ⁃ Grief when life changes, like aging parents. 

 ⁃ Allowing your experience

 ⁃ Ritualising your experience 

 ⁃ Supporting your body to be with the intensity 

 ⁃ Finding community where your grief can be held 

 ⁃ Complex feelings of love and resentment 

 ⁃ Not getting so nostalgic that you forget the shitshow 

 ⁃ We’re not just grieving who/what we perceive we’ve lost, but grieving who we are in relationship to the world.


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