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May 28
36m 23s

Grieving what never was

Nicole Dawna Mitchell
About this episode

This episode is about a kind of grief most people never talk about — the grief you feel when life doesn’t go the way you hoped. When you’ve always been the strong one, the caretaker, the one who keeps it all together… and then you realize, deep down, you’re sad about what you never got.

Whether it's a version of your childhood, the kind of relationship you wanted with your parents, a dream that didn’t work out, or a plan that fell apart — this is for the kind of grief that doesn’t come with a clear ending.

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