"I'm grieving a life I never had" Dial Emma: The Unsaid
Dial Emma
Emma Reed Turrell
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 23 March 2026
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
In honour of International Women’s Day, Dial Emma presents The Unsaid – a four-part mini-series exploring the emotional realities many women are living with, but rarely have language for. Each episode features two listener dilemmas and twenty minutes of thoughtful, compassionate reflection on the inner work women are doing beneath the surface of competence, independence and survival.
This is the fourth and final episode of The Unsaid mini-series, and this week we're talking about grief - but perhaps not in the way you might think.
We hear from two listeners who are both struggling to navigate their unique experiences of grief. One is experiencing the loss of the person she thought she would become and the life she thought she would live, while the other survived something traumatic and is now grieving for the parts of herself that she lost in the process.
How do we move forward in the wake of survival, knowing that it came at a cost? Can we ever make meaning from the chaos of the grief experience?
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Dial Emma is hosted by Emma Reed Turrell, produced by Lauren Brook.
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| 0:00.0 | This is 40-year-old Kathy, mother of two and self-confessed tele-addict. |
| 0:06.1 | Oh, look at you, that's brilliant. |
| 0:08.9 | Well done. |
| 0:09.7 | This is also Kathy, working as part of a team to keep things calm at her local prison. |
| 0:14.6 | Come on. |
| 0:16.5 | Listen, speak to me. |
| 0:18.3 | And helping someone's son write his first letter home in eight months. |
| 0:22.3 | Well done. |
| 0:23.0 | You should be really proud. |
| 0:24.3 | Thank you, miss. |
| 0:25.1 | An extraordinary job done by someone like you. |
| 0:28.4 | Search prison jobs now. |
| 0:31.2 | Hello and welcome to Dial Emma, the podcast where your dilemmas meet my therapeutic insights. |
| 0:37.8 | I'm Emery Terrell, Psychotherapist author, and well-recovering people-pleaser. |
| 0:42.4 | Each week, I'll be unpacking real-life questions from listeners just like you. |
| 0:46.9 | The big ones, the small ones, the ones that keep you up at night, |
| 0:50.5 | offering practical tools and gentle truths to help you find your way through. |
| 0:55.2 | So if you've got a question, you don't know how to ask out loud. |
| 0:58.7 | You've come to the right place. |
| 1:07.7 | Welcome back to this week's episode of Dial Emma, the fourth and final installment of our Dial Emma, the Unsaid mini-series. |
| 1:16.4 | In celebration of International Women's Day at the beginning of the month, we have had a number of fantastic dilemmas come in, |
| 1:25.4 | and I've loved unpacking them with you and exploring |
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