If I’m Not Here To Tell You
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If I’m Not Here To Tell You
What if you were diagnosed with terminal cancer while raising a newborn baby? What if you thought your kid might have to grow up without you? What if you had to grow up without a mom? This is a series for my kid, to make sure she is mothered by who I am, my experiences and the lessons I’ve learned t...
Nýlegir þættir
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Episode 7: An Honouring of Mothers (and their daughters) Who’ve Died At Different Ages
5 women whose mother’s have died at different ages (including my own grandmother!) answer 4 questions about having their mothers no longer with them....
EPISODE 6: Talking To Kids About Death with Janie Brown
An exploration of talking to kids about death with Janie Brown, co-founder of Callinash Society, an organization I consider the midwifery of cancer ca...
Mini Episode for the doulas, by request.
Mini episode for the recent doula grads by request from @bewithbirth: “a doula pep talk for us students to listen to on our way to a birth. Little rem...
Episode 5: Lessons On Parenting, Learned Through Birth
I chat to my friend Josha McNab (@raising_humanz) about how connecting to the instinctual physiology of birth helped us connect to the instinctual nur...
Episode 4: Lessons On Life, Through Birth
Birth, in many ways, is simply a metaphor for life. I share the lessons birth has taught me about living life and finding strength through intensity a...
Episode 3: Preparing For Death (Like Birth)
Preparing for death and how it overlaps with preparing for birth. Tal has a moment of raw emotion and we laugh-cry our way through being human togethe...
Episode 2: Facing Death Head On
We talked last episode about how I was born, and here’s an intro to confronting the idea of my death. Part one of a conversation on how looking death...
Episode 1: I have a mom: Intro to building a legacy for my daughter
I talk about how I want to leave lessons and stories from my life behind in order mother my daughter even if my metastatic cancer takes me from her to...