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This episode first aired on September 25, 2021, as Motherless Daughters on my podcast Beneath Your Beautiful.
I’m bringing it back now as The Beauty of What Remains, at a deeply meaningful moment - 40 years after losing my own mom. On May 3, I’ll be gathering with other women who share this loss for a special event: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-beauty-of-what-remains-tickets-1984135571907
In this conversation, I sit with 12 women — each with her own story of losing her mom — to explore what it means to grow, grieve, and live without that foundational relationship. Some relationships were complicated, marked by addiction, distance, or pain. Others were deeply loving, leaving behind an ache that never fully fades. All are honest.
Featuring: Krisha Young, Gillian Cranehahn, Amber McKenzie, Judi Rabensteiner Frers, Janet E. Gracey, Karen Holzer, Leslie Woodfill, Kerri Miller, Rene Johnston, Lona Barnum, Emily Waters Britton-Arnold, Cecily Mathis
We talk about what it was like to be daughters in those relationships — and what it means to become women without them. How loss shapes identity. How patterns repeat — or are broken. How, even in absence, a mother’s presence can still be felt in dreams, memories, and the quiet ways we move through the world.
There is no single way to be a motherless daughter. But there is connection here. Understanding. And perhaps a kind of healing that happens when we realize we are not alone.
This episode is shared in honor of my mom, and for every woman who still, in some way, just wants her mom.
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Host Hara Allison won first place in the 2022 International Positive Change Podcast Awards and was a nominee in the 2023 and 2024 Publisher Podcast Awards and in the 18th Annual People’s Choice Podcast Awards. She was also a 2024 Spokane Women of Achievement nominee for the Arts and a finalist for The Women Changing the World Awards.
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