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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In this episode I share an interview with Kate Riley, author and death midwife, about our own relationships with our mothers and how they changed as we provided care to them at the end of life. Happy Mother’s Day to all mothers out there listening!
