Lauren Burton learned early in life to be the calm one, the good girl, and the person who kept everything together. Growing up around instability shaped how she understood love, responsibility, belonging, and the role she felt she needed to play in other people’s lives. Please visit our website for more information: http://www.hersideofthestories.com
Years later, Lauren believed she had reached a very different place. She had begun understanding the patterns she carried from childhood, changed the way she saw herself, found love, and felt ready for a happier chapter.
In this intimate conversation with Asal Zara, Lauren reflects on what happened when life challenged everything she thought she had already learned about healing. She speaks about motherhood, love, identity, relationships, meaning, and how rebuilding your life doesn't mean leaving someone you love behind.
Topics covered:
Growing Up as the “Good Girl”
Learning to Keep the Peace
Becoming Independent at a Young Age
How Childhood Roles Follow Us Into Adulthood
Finding a Different Way to See Her Past
Moving From Survival Into Choice
Meeting the Person She Wanted to Build a Life With
When the Future She Imagined Changed
Learning What Support Really Looks Like
Keeping Jasmine Part of Their Family
Finding Meaning Without Explaining the Unexplainable
Allowing Joy Back Into Her Life
How Motherhood Changed Her Again
Learning to Carry Love Differently
Finding Her Way Back to Herself
Lauren describes keeping her connection with Jasmine alive through everyday rituals, family traditions, photographs, nature, and the work created in her name. She and Tim also raised more than £20,000 in Jasmine’s honor to support other parents.
One of Lauren’s biggest turning points came when she realized that feeling joy did not mean leaving Jasmine behind. For Lauren, acceptance does not mean being okay with what happened. It means learning how to carry love forward while continuing to live.
Her Side of the Stories is a cinematic long-form interview podcast exploring extraordinary women’s lives from the inside. Each episode explores the experiences, relationships, identities, turning points, and choices that shaped who they became.
Her Side of the Stories explores the inner lives behind the lives people see.
Her Voice. Her Truth. Her Side.
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