What happens when a date on the calendar marks the exact place where your life divided into before and after?
In this season finale episode, I gather the core themes we have explored throughout this season—body memory, caregiving capacity, difficult emotions, identity shifts, and faith.
As we move through September, two dates carry immense weight for me. The first is September 11th, a national tragedy that entered our home and deeply affected my son, Michael, as he wrestled with his own safety, disability, and desire for independence. The second is September 17th, the private anniversary of Michael’s passing, 17 days after he entered the hospital for the final time.
In this season finale, I unpack:
• Public Ruptures & Private Grief: How national events can enter a family system and alter a child’s inner sense of safety.
• The Calendar as a Somatic Marker: Why your body remembers anniversaries, birthdays, or hospital dates long before your conscious mind catches up.
• Daily Awareness vs. Timelines: Reflecting on Kelly Edmondson’s insight that grief doesn’t follow a schedule, but requires us to carry heaviness and joy simultaneously.
• Living Beyond Division: Why the goal of grief integration is not to become untouched by loss, but to become someone who no longer feels divided between loss and love.
Whether you are approaching a difficult anniversary or learning how to navigate the quiet calendar dates only your heart remembers, this episode offers compassionate space to honor your truth.
Listen to the episode now and subscribe. You do not have to carry this weight in isolation.
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