Graduation Season is Weird

About this episode

This episode explores the complex emotions parents experience during graduation season, highlighting the grief and disorientation that often accompany pride.

Graduation Season: Behind the Curtain When you picture a high school graduation, you probably see the cap and gown, the walk across the stage, the backyard party. That's one version. This episode is about what's actually going on underneath it for a lot of parents — the grief sitting next to the pride, the disorientation nobody warned you about, the strange feeling of being unmoored even when everything is technically fine. Graduation season is complicated in ways that don't fit in a congratulations card. And you deserve to know you're not alone in that. Connect with me at julie-w.com — I read everything you send me.

People in this episode

Host: Julie Winchester Workman

Topics covered

• graduation
• parenting
• emotional challenges
• pride and grief
• transition
• teenagers

Keywords

• graduation season
• parenting
• emotional complexity
• teenagers
• pride
• grief
• transition

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