About this episode

This episode explores the complex emotions surrounding Mother's Day, including grief and loss, through a conversation between Gabriela Espinosa and Rebecca Soffer.

There is a version of Mother's Day we all know. The brunches, the bouquets, the Hallmark cards. And then there is the version so many women carry quietly underneath — the grief of a mother who is gone, of never becoming one, of a child lost, of the mother we needed and never had, and the grief of a mother who is still here but already somehow leaving. This episode of Pleasure in the Pause makes space for that fuller truth. Host Gabriela Espinosa sits down with Rebecca Soffer, co-founder of Mo...

Topics covered

• Mother's Day
• grief
• loss
• meaning
• motherhood
• mental health

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