Eight Months, Four Diagnoses, Zero Answers: Why She Stopped Trusting Doctors and Healed Herself

About this episode

Mia Godfrey shares her journey of coping with multiple losses and the importance of self-advocacy in health decisions.

If you've ever made a decision out of panic — about your health, your grief, or your life — episode 418 of Grief and Happiness is essential listening. Author and life coach Mia Godfrey shares how losing her father, her first husband, and her sister across three decades left her without the tools to cope — until a therapist handed her a journal and changed everything. From the realities of caregiving to a terrifying liver diagnosis she refused to rush, Mia's story is a masterclass in never letting fear make your decisions for you. In This Episode, You Will Learn: (00:55) Mia Godfrey: author, life coach, keynote speaker, youngest of ten from Romania (01:18) Three devastating losses across three decades — and no tools to grieve (05:35) Why she left Romania: addiction, shame, and a love story (07:46) Growing up under communism and her father's survival lessons on the Danube (10:50) Her sister: 13 months apart, inseparable — and why her loss broke everything (11:26) What 11 months of caregiving taught her about grace and self-neglect (14:43) Why honoring a loved one's treatment decisions matters — even when it's hard (17:23) The end-of-life conversations she refused to have — and what…

People in this episode

Host: Emily Thiroux Threatt

Guest: Mia Godfrey

Topics covered

• grief
• health
• self-advocacy
• loss
• caregiving
• personal growth

Keywords

• grief
• health decisions
• self-advocacy
• caregiving
• personal growth
• loss
• Mia Godfrey

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Grief and Happiness

Places: Romania

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