Now That She's Gone: Mother Loss, Health Anxiety, and Legacy with Chelsea Ohlemiller

About this episode

Nina Rodriguez and Chelsea Ohlemiller discuss the impact of mother loss and the challenges of parenting with health concerns.

What does it mean to carry a mother’s love forward after she’s gone? How do you parent a child with life-threatening food allergies? In this heartfelt conversation, Nina Rodriguez sits down with Chelsea Ohlemiller, author of Now That She’s Gone: A Daughter’s Reflections on Loss, Love & a Mother’s Legacy, to explore the enduring impact of mother loss. Chelsea shares how the sudden death of her mother in 2017 reshaped her identity, her marriage, and her parenting, and how writing became bot...

People in this episode

Host: Nina Rodriguez

Guest: Chelsea Ohlemiller

Topics covered

• mother loss
• health anxiety
• parenting
• food allergies
• legacy
• identity
• grief

Keywords

• mother loss
• health anxiety
• parenting
• food allergies
• grief
• legacy
• identity

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Now That She’s Gone: A Daughter’s Reflections on Loss, Love & a Mother’s Legacy

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