About this episode

Rebe Huntman shares her journey of confronting grief and reconnecting with her mother through a transformative trip to Cuba.

Maybe you know this feeling. Someone died and you kept going, because that was what you were supposed to do. You stayed busy, you stayed capable, and somewhere along the way you convinced yourself that you had handled it. Rebe Huntman lost her mother to cancer at 19. The grief counselors told her to move forward. So she did, with discipline and determination and a full, successful life. But 30 years later, on the edge of turning 50, she realized she had never actually let herself miss her. Not really. This episode follows Rebe's pilgrimage to Cuba, a country where the dead are not gone, where ancestors are spoken to daily and the veil between worlds is treated as thin and navigable. What she found there, in the dances, in the drumming, in the quiet workroom of a spiritist in El Cobre, was not magic for its own sake. It was permission. Permission to stop moving past her grief and start staying in it. What You'll Hear: How Rebe mastered the art of moving forward and the cost it quietly carried The moment in Cuba when her understanding of death, grief, and ancestry completely shifted What it felt like to reimagine the hospital room scene she had been carrying for 30 years How a…

People in this episode

Host: Matt Gilhooly

Guest: Rebe Huntman

Topics covered

• grief
• ancestry
• Cuba
• healing
• personal growth

Keywords

• grief
• mother
• Cuba
• healing
• ancestry
• personal growth
• loss

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Cuba

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