Overcoming the Unthinkable
Life, Death & The Space Between with Dr. Amy Robbins
Dr. Amy Robbins
4.8 • 588 Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
In this episode I sit down with Jessica Ayers to explore her resilient journey through the sudden loss of her husband right after the birth of their first child. Jessica recounts the tragic event that took her husband's life, the challenges of new motherhood while grieving, and the decade-long path to finding purpose and love again. We discuss the secondary losses that accompany such trauma, the importance of a strong support system, and finding new meaning amidst immense loss. Jessica also shares how she navigated remarriage and the ongoing relationship with her past. Visit our podcast page for episode notes and more about Jessica's inspiring story.
0:00 - Introduction to Jessica Ayers
01:28 – Little bit about Jessica’s incredible story
07:07 – How things had to align for this to happen
08:02 – Jessica’s life after she lost her husband
10:58 – Finding the strength
15:46 – Finding the ONE thing that can get you up in the morning
16:30 – Secondary losses
21:30 – The hardest thing – moving forward
31:09 – ‘November Rain’ keeps appearing everywhere
31:59 – Where can people find more about Jessica & farewells
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Dr. Amy Robbins and welcome to life, death, and the space between. |
| 0:06.3 | What would you do if the absolutely unimaginable happened and your husband died or your partner died? |
| 0:16.5 | Five days after you gave birth to your first child. |
| 0:24.6 | Today's episode with Jessica Ayers, |
| 0:33.7 | she shares how she survived that horrible, horrible experience. And it will literally take your breath away when you hear what happened. But she has found joy again and to hear her story |
| 0:42.4 | and hear her journey through grief and loss and pain in juxtaposition with what should have been a time |
| 0:50.8 | of life and joy and love is so heartwarming and I hope will serve as an |
| 0:58.9 | inspiration to anybody who is listening that even in the deepest, darkest times, there is |
| 1:05.5 | still hope. So with that, I bring you today's conversation with Jessica Ayers. |
| 1:19.0 | Welcome Jessica, the singing widow to life, death, and the space between. |
| 1:25.1 | Thank you so much. |
| 1:26.4 | Thank you for having me. |
| 1:28.2 | So can you start? |
| 1:30.0 | I always like to give kind of the opportunity for you to tell a little bit of your story |
| 1:35.6 | because I know when I was reading it, obviously it's about the loss of your partner. |
| 1:40.9 | And I'm reading it and I'm thinking, okay, how did he die? |
| 1:43.6 | And then I was like oh my gosh |
| 1:46.9 | this is I mean there are deaths and and they're all horrible but this is so horribly tragic that it's |
| 1:56.7 | just literally like I gasped when I was reading it. So can you tell us kind of what happened and |
| 2:03.6 | and what led to this? Yeah. So it definitely one of those headlining stories. My husband's |
| 2:13.8 | death was a literal story headline all over the news. So you want me to start kind of, |
| 2:21.1 | where do you want me to start really? Just kind of like. Yeah, a little bit of your love story and how you |
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