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

All these women of all ages who had been trained to self-silence, they had not spoken about their losses before because the culture didn't make room for it.

Their families found it too painful.

And they had internalized the message, this is something we don't talk about.

So they didn't.

And now they felt they had permission.

So, yeah, it was a pretty wild ride.

And it was very, very busy for almost a decade.

Sure, sure.

The book opens with this letter from a woman in Minnesota.

who said, I'm sitting here alone on Mother's Day.

I am 23 years old.

My mother died almost 10 years ago.

I was 13.

There is an emptiness inside of me, a void that will never be filled.

No one in your life will ever love you as your mother does.

There is no love as pure, unconditional, and strong as a mother's love, and I will never be loved that way again.

I think that speaks to your question earlier, which is why is this loss different from all other losses?

Because most of us will only have the opportunity to have one mother in our lives, and she's irreplaceable.

Here's another woman in New York who wrote, do you ever get over it?

Do you ever get on with your life?

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