Mothers Who Lost Sons Share Their Journey Through Grief and Hope

About this episode

Yolanda Harrison and Tina Dobbins share their experiences of losing their sons to violence and the profound impact it had on their lives.

Send us Fan Mail Yolanda Harrison and Tina Dobbins share raw, heartbreaking accounts of receiving the calls that changed everything—learning their sons had been shot, rushing to hospitals, and facing the brutal reality that their children were gone. Both women describe how this trauma fundamentally changed them, triggering serious health issues and requiring them to forge new identities in the aftermath of loss. "When he died, I died. I had to learn how to be someone else," Harrison explains,...

People in this episode

Guests: Yolanda Harrison, Tina Dobbins

Topics covered

• grief
• loss
• trauma
• identity
• hope
• motherhood

Keywords

• grief
• loss
• trauma
• identity
• hope
• motherhood
• health issues
• personal journey

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