Losing a Parent: My Experience with Grief & Healing
The Mom Room
Renee Reina & Podcast Nation
4.8 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
EP477. In this solo episode of The Mom Room, Renee opens up about her personal journey through grief after the recent loss of her Dad. She shares the emotional experience of MAID, and the overwhelming challenge of explaining the loss to her son. Renee also talks about the importance of self-care during such a difficult time and how she's been taking small steps to prioritize her mental and emotional health. With vulnerability and honesty, Renee reflects on her recent experiences and offers a heartfelt look at how she’s been coping, healing, and growing in the midst of it all.
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| 0:49.9 | Welcome to the mom room. I seriously debated just putting up an old episode today because I have been |
| 0:57.0 | horizontal all day and not in a productive way. It's not like I binge watched a show. I watched a little bit |
| 1:04.5 | of love as blind, but like I have no motivation to do anything. I am recording this on Monday evening. It's 5 p.m. Is that evening or like |
| 1:14.7 | late afternoon? Anyways, it has obviously been a whirlwind of emotions. I have been at my parents' place. |
| 1:23.2 | My brother and I tried to fly home from North Bay on Saturday. And the thing about flying to Northern |
| 1:30.1 | Ontario is like there's a good chance you're not going to get there or you're not going to be |
| 1:34.5 | able to leave. So our flight was booked for 1 p.m. and they kept delaying it, kept delaying it further. |
| 1:41.7 | And so we were at the North Bay Airport and my mayor and grandpa were |
| 1:46.4 | like, do you want us to just drive you to Pearson? Because Pree was going to pick me up at |
| 1:51.0 | Pearson and my brother had to catch a connecting flight at 5 p.m. So with all the delays on our flight, |
| 1:57.8 | we would have missed or he would have missed his connection to Vancouver. |
| 2:01.1 | So we just freaking hopped in the car and they drove us to Toronto's airport. |
| 2:05.0 | Pre picked me up at the airport. |
| 2:06.2 | So that was like a whole thing. |
| 2:08.4 | And then Sunday I tried to have a normal day. |
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