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Nobody Told Me Grief Was Going to Give Me an Identity Crisis
Season 2, Ep. 3
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Nobody tells you that losing someone comes with a full-blown identity crisis. In this episode of My Mom Died, Gabri Segui breaks down what grief actually does to your sense of self: why you stop recognizing yourself in the mirror, what it means to lose the person who witnessed every version of you, and why the parts of you that only your person knew can feel gone too. She also talks about the grief identity rebuild, why your old self is not coming back, and why that is not a failure. If you are grieving and wondering why you feel like a completely different person, this episode will finally give you the language for it.
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