Grief poetry, hijacked baby pics, and high conflict divorce
Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
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🗓️ 18 December 2023
⏱️ 71 minutes
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December 18, 2023
The Psychology In Seattle Podcast ®
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| 0:00.0 | So Rebecca, let's adjourn our private conversation about grief and complicated relationships. |
| 0:08.8 | And let's start podcasting about grief and complicated relationships, you wanted to read a poem. |
| 0:15.4 | Yeah. What's this poem? So I was in a workshop where there was time for writing and |
| 0:21.9 | you were supposed to write on a certain subject and that's not |
| 0:25.1 | what came out at all a summary I guess a eulogy to my mom came out. |
| 0:34.4 | And I've read it to a couple people |
| 0:36.1 | and they found it powerful. |
| 0:37.9 | And then in the conversation that we were just having |
| 0:39.7 | about some relationships are really complex and how do you grieve them so it just |
| 0:44.8 | seemed like the time. |
| 0:46.8 | Mm-hmm. You're right. |
| 0:48.8 | We're laid on us. I've never read a poem. I've never, okay here we go this time last year my mother was saying yes to |
| 0:58.0 | life cancer in seven places in her body and I was left holding the bag. I think you're dying. |
| 1:10.4 | I got a massage to try and relax. On the table I had a vision that she would die on my birthday, |
| 1:19.6 | December 25th. Instead she falls on that day. Her 94 year old lover cannot pick her up. She is |
| 1:29.3 | hospitalized fighting with the nurses, screams for her lover, her doctor calls me. |
| 1:37.0 | He and I agree to end her life. |
| 1:41.0 | Palliative care, they call it. |
| 1:45.0 | It takes a lot of paperwork to end someone else's existence. |
| 1:52.0 | She spends one night in hospice. She dies December 29th. |
| 1:57.0 | There ends my mother's life, four husbands, stacks of credit cards, a life beginning in Chicago, |
| 2:09.5 | the southwest side, Michigan for Teachers College, Colorado for an abuse of marriage to a Jewish |
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