Hope Edelman

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545 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 16 Jul

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The Tamsen Show · What No One Tells You About Grief After Losing Your Mother · 16 Jul 2026 podcast

And some of them are childless by circumstance.

They wish they could have, but they didn't meet a partner or they struggled with infertility.

But others made a conscious choice.

They had to raise younger siblings, or they were caretaking for a father or a grandmother, as in your case, or they felt that maybe they couldn't do this without their moms.

They felt that they didn't have the maternal instinct because they hadn't been raised by a mother, and so they made a choice not to have children.

So we have a breakout room and an online chat, actually, in our online community called Childless by Circumstance or Choice, where women talk about this.

That's fascinating.

Oh, yeah.

You know, it was a kind of grief that even though I was mentally expecting and prepared for...

I think emotionally and somatically, I was not ready for what happened.

And I don't know that I could have been in advance.

It's a form of grief that I call new old grief, which is when an old loss shows up in your life in a completely new way.

And that's what happened when my oldest daughter, my first child, was born.

I thought I was mentally prepared.

I thought, okay, there won't be a mom to help me.

I'll set up help after she comes.

I put together a team.

I was in a mom's baby yoga group, and so all the moms had a play group together.

I felt like I had good support.

But really, nothing prepared me for bringing my daughter home and looking at her and the way that I missed my mom.

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