Learn about a charming book of wisdom shared by a mother to her daughter and how it touches on the universal experience of loss and grief.
In this episode I’m welcoming my daughter Gia Snyder as my co-host. Gia is a spiritual teacher and musician, who is currently in nursing school to become an RN. Our special guests are also a mother and daughter pair: Suzy Hopkins and Hallie Bateman. Suzy is a retired journalist who worked for four Northern California newspapers and founded a community magazine in the Sierra Foothills. Hallie is a writer and illustrator based in Los Angeles whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Buzzfeed and many others. Together Suzy and Hallie created the book: What to Do When I’m Gone: A Mother’s Wisdom to Her Daughter. The four of us will discuss the book, our mother-daughter relationships, and how we are all dealing with loss and grief as we navigate life and its changes.
Learn more about Gia’s work at: www.divinelygia.com
Learn more about Hallie’s work at: www.halliebateman.com
This episode includes:
- Why Suzy and Hallie decided to write this book
- The anxiety mothers feel over the prospect of leaving children behind when they die
- Anticipatory grief experienced by daughters as their mothers age
- The complicated nature of the mother-daughter relationship
- The importance of wisdom passed on by mothers to their daughters
- How we grieve the loss of our mothers differently than others
- Afterlife communication with our mothers
- How sharing food together helps us heal
- Why recipes are a valuable part of the legacy we leave for family members
Links mentioned in this episode:
- Download What to Do Postcard with questions for parents: Postcard
- Mother-daughter podcast with Gia and Karen: It’s Just Life
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- Support your local bookstore by buying my books on Bookshop and Indiebound: 7 Lessons for Living from the Dying and The Journey from Ego to Soul
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