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Grief Equilibrium: When the Grief Scales are Even

Season 2, Ep. 3

When you’ve lost a person young, there will eventually come a time when you’ve been alive longer without them than with. There’s a time when for one fleeting moment, the grief scale rests at an equilibrium. The before and the after form two perfect halves weighing the same weight in time. We’ve come up with a term for that: Grief Equilibrium. In this episode, Rashida talks about that moment for her. In September 2020 she’s gone 15 years without her mom. A year for every year she had her. From now on the scales will continue to tip in the opposite direction, giving her more life without her mom than with.


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