Let's Be Real - Mama Journeys - Episode 141 W/Emily Hill

Emily Hill is a hospice chaplain and licensed social worker. She developed a love for hospice when she was 7 years old because of her grandfather.  She was so blown away by how hospice people change the world of the family of the person passing on. She earned a Master’s of divinity and connects with death doulas and how to make people comfortable.  Regardless where you fall in the spiritual spectrum, death is a kind of rebirth into the next steps.  She has two children and grew up as a pastor's kid but in her head she had everything planned out with the “normal” progression of get married, have babies, move on. She has a group of college girlfriends that she can’t do life without!  She was the first one of the friends to have a baby and they showed up with a party size pizza because they were 24 and didn’t know any better!  They are her people!  Her best mama moment came recently when she was asked to chaperone a field trip and when she was worried what her 10 year old would say about her going.  But low and beyond, her daughter was excited to have her, it made her heart so happy! Her worst mama moment was when she had a miscarriage.  It rocked her world after having a 3, and 5 year old she had a miscarriage and she was devastated.  It also could have ended their marriage because of how they experienced this loss. Humans often experience experiences so differently and they can sometimes make or break a marriage. She wishes she would have known that everyday is a fresh start.  We build on things day after day but really every single day can be a do-over! Emily says, “give yourself grace!”  You are never going to be perfect so give yourself grace!