I Want Some Peace of Mind

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🗓️ 2 February 2024

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Karyn is having some complicated feelings since the death of her alcoholic mother. Email questions or comments: [email protected] - Participate on the radio program: call 1-800-Dr-Laura / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment https://www.drlaura.com/make-an-appointment.

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0:00.0	Thanks for listening to my call of the day podcast. You can hear my live radio program Monday through Friday from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern time on serious XM Triumph 111.
0:11.0	Karen, welcome to the program.
0:14.0	Hi Dr. Laura, how are you today?
0:17.0	Good.
0:18.0	I am calling to see if I get a little bit of peace of mind.
0:24.0	So backstory, my mom passed away about a year ago
0:29.4	due to HIV.
0:31.4	And on top of that, she was also an alcoholic. So it was a sudden death and it being a year ago I don't think I've grieved it. I don't think that I want to say it's hit me. I'm the
0:48.4	youngest one out of three and of course my two elder siblings you know know, it's still hitting them very hard.
0:55.0	So I just, is it normal? Am I crazy? Am I heartless? You know, I cry once in a while obviously when I think about her. am I'm
1:05.0	heartless? You know, I cry once in a while obviously when I think about her.
1:04.0	And the crazy thing is I just had a baby, you know,
1:08.0	two days before her birthday.
1:10.0	So...
1:12.0	When women have babies, that's when the time it hits them they want their mommies
1:17.8	Right, but you you had a drunk for a mommy so that's not much of a mommy there. Yeah. Your siblings are older as you said so they went through more. Probably very difficult things with her because drunken parents are not easy to deal with and
1:35.6	you're the youngest that you actually had the least.
1:39.1	Some part of you is probably somewhat relieved, she's dead,
1:43.0	because the burden of dealing with her is now gone.
1:47.0	So instead of thinking you're supposed to have some stock standard reaction. You need to be more honest as I just tried to be in your behest to look at the total picture and the total picture is move on with your life.
2:06.1	You're somebody else's mother now. What kind of a mother you had has to be put on a back shelf.
2:16.0	Okay. Yeah. You're not a bad person or a sick person or a stupid person if your whole life is not
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