1216: The Grief I Didn't Expect After My Grandchild Was Born with Kellie Hamilton
Emotionally Uncomfortable
Hosted by Heather Chauvin | Insights inspired by Mel Robbins, Bréne Brown, Danielle Laporte, Elizab
4.6 • 576 Ratings
🗓️ 16 June 2025
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
No one tells you that joy and grief can live in the same moment, especially when you become a grandmother.
In this powerful conversation, Heather sits down with Kellie Hamilton to unpack the emotional transition of watching your daughter become a mother. What begins as pride can unexpectedly stir up loss, identity shifts, and a quiet grief that no one warns you about.
Together, Heather and Kellie dive into:
🩶 The unexpected grief of no longer being your daughter's go-to
🩶 Why setting boundaries as a new mom can feel like rejection for her mother
🩶 How Kellie processed her emotions and created a new version of their bond
If you've ever felt ashamed of your sadness in a joyful season, this episode will help you feel seen and understood.
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| 0:00.0 | All right. We are diving in to an episode today that I'm very excited to share with you, |
| 0:07.5 | featuring one of my clients. And back in December, January, no, January of this year, |
| 0:18.4 | so 2025, I hosted an event in Detroit, Michigan. And I had this |
| 0:26.7 | idea, and I'm probably going to do more of this, where I teach my storytelling framework. So this is |
| 0:34.0 | played off of a framework that I was taught when I was writing my book, |
| 0:39.7 | dying to be a good mother. And over the years, what I've noticed, like post-writing |
| 0:44.8 | my book is when I teach the storytelling framework or teach my clients or people who are in |
| 0:51.7 | my world how to tell really good stories. It is not just a |
| 0:57.5 | communication tool, but it is also an effective healing strategy. And so you're probably going to |
| 1:05.1 | hear more and more about this. So the reason why I'm telling you this is because I, at that event, |
| 1:10.6 | I had all the women write |
| 1:12.6 | stories. |
| 1:13.6 | And Kelly wrote a story and it was a beautiful story. |
| 1:16.5 | Everybody at the event was crying and we voted. |
| 1:22.3 | And Kelly actually won the vote. |
| 1:26.2 | And so the next day we went into the podcast studio and she told her story |
| 1:31.5 | again. And then we talked about her journey of working with me and all the things. So you're going to |
| 1:36.4 | hear in today's episode, Kelly talk about, you know, the grief she didn't expect after becoming a grandmother. |
| 1:47.4 | So no one tells you, I'm just reading the intro here, no one tells you that joy and grief |
| 1:53.9 | can live in the same moment, especially when you become a grandmother. |
| 1:57.9 | In the episode with Kelly and I today, we're going to unpack the emotional |
| 2:02.7 | transition of watching your daughter become a mother. And what begins as pride can unexpectedly stir up |
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