Grief Can’t Break You

The Trent Shelton Podcast

Trent Shelton

Mental Health, Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.9 • 5.9K Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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0:00.0	God, give me strength.
0:02.7	Mom, I miss you so, so much.
0:04.8	I love you.
0:05.7	We love you.
0:07.0	And this is the hardest podcast I've ever had to do.
0:12.0	And I can't tell you what to expect, y'all.
0:14.7	But I just hope it makes you take time and reflect on what's really important in life,
0:23.9	on the things that truly matter.
0:30.4	And I want to honor my mother today by talking about three things that she really helped me understand. But as far as me, you know, I'm dealing with the hardest time of my life.
0:36.0	My mom is my rock.
0:38.9	I'm our baby boy.
0:40.4	And our family is just really close.
0:43.2	So when I lost my mother, I lost a big piece of my life and my heart.
0:48.9	And even me saying that, man, it just seems surreal.
0:53.2	Like mom is a person I just thought would live forever like we all
0:56.8	think that right and it's tough because i'm going through this phase of grief and it's like a pendulum
1:06.6	swinging from acceptance to denial from anger to to joy, from sadness to happiness, from me asking
1:15.2	why, to me just knowing that God needed his angel back. And my mom has fought the good fight,
1:24.4	but just being real, knowing those things don't make it easier. But what does help is
1:30.0	knowing that my mom was suffering. And she's no longer suffering. You know, at her funeral, I didn't
1:36.6	think I could have the strength to be up there and speak about my mom. But seeing my dad preach her eulogy,
1:43.3	seeing my brothers up there, honor my mom, gave me the strength.
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