In memoriam of my dad

Girlscamp

Hayley Rawle

Documentary, Personal Journals, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

4.5 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

My dad died unexpectedly at age 54. Today I talk about what it's been like to process his death, especially the spiritual side of it all. I also read the words I spoke at his funeral. Mostly, I share what his life and love meant to me. And what they mean to me now.

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0:00.0	G-I-R-L-S-C-A-N-P-S-C-A-N-P its Girls Can Hello everyone and welcome back to Girls Camp Podcast. I'm Haley
0:17.0	Rawl your host. Thank you so much for tuning in. Today's episode is going
0:21.1	to be a little bit different because my dad died about a week ago.
0:27.6	He died very suddenly, very unexpectedly of a heart attack and he was only 54 years old. As I've been going through the grief, the
0:38.4	processing, as you can imagine, there is a lot that comes up, a lot of thoughts, a lot that comes up a lot of thoughts a lot of feelings a lot of
0:45.5	insights even into religion spirituality mormonism post-morm Christianity, all of it is very intertwined when you are trying to
0:57.6	comprehend death and the death of a loved one and the death of a parent.
1:02.8	And I've been trying to be very, very aware and gentle
1:08.8	with myself as I work through all of this and trying to be really careful about how and when I talk about it,
1:17.6	right? It's still very fresh for me, but for many reasons I have found myself feeling really not even compelled but just wanting to come on the podcast and talk about it
1:30.9	This podcast for me has been such a beneficial tool for vocal processing.
1:39.3	Yeah, I was just talking to Bentley and I was like, I don't know. I don't know if it's too soon to talk about this stuff I don't know I don't know I don't know anything if there's one thing I know
1:49.4	especially now it's that I don't know anything but it feels right for me and it feels
1:55.1	good for me to be coming and talking about this now so I'm going to and I
2:00.3	appreciate the safety that I feel here on Girls Camp podcast to come and talk about
2:05.7	something incredibly tender and vulnerable.
2:09.5	And I wanted to say that if you are listening and you may be coming in any way from any place of
2:15.8	judgment I would just ask you to please not listen today I will take your numbers I
2:21.9	will take your listens any other time but I just am going to be
2:27.3	talking about something very tender and dear and so if you are coming from any place of judgment, please move along for today and we'll
2:35.9	catch you next week.
2:37.4	I've also found myself feeling around my dad's death kind of along those lines,
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