16. Motherless Mother: Finding Joy, Rage, and Spiritual Co-Creation After Loss with Kristen Brandao
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Nicole Weston interviews Kristen Brandao about her journey of grief and healing as a motherless mother.
In this powerful episode of Can’t Call Your Mom , Nicole sits down with Kristen to explore the complex layers of Mother’s Day grief and the transformative journey of the motherless mother . Kristen shares her deeply personal experience of repressing mother loss for seven years, wearing "armor" to stay strong, until an existential crisis on her 40th birthday cracked her wide open. Kristen’s breakthrough came through the power of writing. By leaning into curiosity, she realized that by numbing her grief , she had also blocked her capacity for joy. Through her debut memoir, Magenta Me , she moved through layers of subconscious programming and inner child work to find radical forgiveness and a new spiritual, co-creative relationship with her mother. As Kristen beautifully dedicates in her book: "For my mom. When I asked the light, it told me to write our beautiful love story. In the end, I found the light was you." Feeling to Heal : Understanding that you must feel the pain of loss to truly experience the heights of joy. The Spiritual Connection : Shifting from a physical absence to a spiritual presence where conversations with Mom continue through intuition and…
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