My Mom Died
Grief is messy, awkward, and sometimes weirdly funny, and no one tells you what to do when it happens to you.
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Grieving a Mom in a Country That Doesn't Talk About Grief (opens the original)
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Grief looks different depending on where in the world you are. In this episode of My Mom Died, Gabri Segui sits down with Helen and Celine, two women from Germany, one now living in New Zealand, to talk about what losing a mom looks like across different cultures. They cover the shocking differences in bereavement leave, why some cultures are blunt about death while others avoid it entirely, what anticipatory grief feels like when you watch a parent fade from cancer, the guilt of grieving from a
Do You Ever Really Move On After Losing Someone? (opens the original)
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For years, Gabri Segui believed you never really move on from grief, you just learn to move with it. Then a conversation with a friend at the gym challenged that thinking completely. In this episode of My Mom Died, Gabri explores the tension between moving on and moving with your grief, why "move on" is one of the most hated phrases grievers hear, and whether both perspectives can actually be true at the same time. She breaks down what moving on really means, why the phrase creates an invisible
The Real Reason You See Signs From Your Dead Loved Ones (opens the original)
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After losing someone, you start seeing them everywhere. A cardinal. A butterfly. A song on the radio at the exact moment you needed it. In this episode of My Mom Died, Gabri Segui breaks down the actual brain chemistry behind why grievers see signs from their loved ones, from how your brain filters emotionally significant information to the grief psychology concept of continuing bonds. She shares her own sign from her mom, the stories her community shared in Grief Circle, and why the relationshi
Surviving The First Year Of Losing Your Mom (Q&A) (opens the original)
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When you lose someone, grief raises questions that nobody around you seems to know how to answer. In this episode of My Mom Died, Gabri Segui answers the second round of questions submitted by her community, including how to handle grief guilt, what to do when everyone expects you to be over it, whether you will ever forget the sound of your mom's voice, how to deal with a surviving parent who takes their grief out on you, what to do with a loved one's belongings, and how grief changes your rela
Does the Pain of Losing a Mother Ever Go Away? (Q&A) (opens the original)
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After losing someone, grief raises questions that most answers just do not touch. In this episode of My Mom Died, Gabri Segui answers real questions submitted by her community about what grief actually looks like from the inside. She covers how to introduce new people to a mom they will never meet, how to celebrate milestones after losing a parent, what to do when dreams of your person feel more real than waking life, how to handle family members who take their grief out on you, what grief looks
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