About My Mom: A Story of Chronic Illness

In the first part of Episode 3, Carrie describes a dream involving a skywriter with a less than uplifting message. She uses this dream to describe a little of what it was like to be raised by a mother who wanted to make sure Carrie was prepared for the challenges of real life. 

In part 2, the tone is more serious as Carrie shares the complex struggles her mother endured throughout her life, but especially during the last five years leading to her death. There is a strong focus on chronic illness and it's impact as well as unhealed trauma. Carrie also discusses the challenges of balancing the therapist parts of herself that hold great empathy for mother vs the daughter parts of herself that hold some feelings of anger in the context of grief. There is some discussion of intimate partner violence as well as gun violence that may feel unsafe for some listeners. 

If you have a question for next week's mini episode and Who Asked Me segment, or if you have a story you'd like to tell, send me an email at [e-mail]. I'd love to hear from you.

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