Life After Losing Mom - Understanding How Your Mom's Past Led To Her Demise With Deborah Morbeto

Understanding How Your Mom's Past Led To Her Demise With Deborah Morbeto

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08/07/19 • 48 min

Life After Losing Mom

Welcome to Life After Losing Mom With Kat Bonner. In this episode, we’re joined by artist and mother, Deborah Morbeto.

What To Listen For

How Deborah’s mother passed suddenly.
How the element of surprise makes processing a traumatic event even more difficult.
Deborah’s mom’s fear of death and its role in her life.
How unhealthy relationships can take a toll on your health even when you’re physically healthy.
The oxygen mask metaphor for relationships and how that’s crucial in your relationships.
How Jada’s relationship with her mom evolved from tumultuous teenage years into a best friendship
The mixed messages that we receive in today’s culture.
How to be a woman in modern times.
Why it’s important for women to own property and a secure financial plan in place.
How hard it can be to watch someone spending money they don’t have to buy things that won’t bring them what they actually need.
The sense of loneliness and isolation you feel when you lose your only parent.
How losing your mom can feel like losing a limb.
How to process emotions through creativity and art.

Deborah lost her mom suddenly when she seemed to be in good physical health. But her mom wasn’t healthy emotionally and ultimately led to her demise. Deborah uses art and creativity to process her emotions and teaches others to do the same. How you process is up to you but it’s important to try and find an outlet or activity that works for you.

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Welcome to Life After Losing Mom With Kat Bonner. In this episode, we’re joined by artist and mother, Deborah Morbeto.

What To Listen For

How Deborah’s mother passed suddenly.
How the element of surprise makes processing a traumatic event even more difficult.
Deborah’s mom’s fear of death and its role in her life.
How unhealthy relationships can take a toll on your health even when you’re physically healthy.
The oxygen mask metaphor for relationships and how that’s crucial in your relationships.
How Jada’s relationship with her mom evolved from tumultuous teenage years into a best friendship
The mixed messages that we receive in today’s culture.
How to be a woman in modern times.
Why it’s important for women to own property and a secure financial plan in place.
How hard it can be to watch someone spending money they don’t have to buy things that won’t bring them what they actually need.
The sense of loneliness and isolation you feel when you lose your only parent.
How losing your mom can feel like losing a limb.
How to process emotions through creativity and art.

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Becoming At Peace With Losing Your Mom Feat. Priscilla Cope

Welcome to Life After Losing Mom With Kat Bonner. In this episode, we’re joined by Priscilla Cope. She is a student, dispatcher, wife, chihuahua mom, and paranormal investigator. She’s staying busy as she moves through life without her best friend.

What To Listen For

The story of Priscilla’s mother's sudden diagnosis of bladder cancer.
Priscilla’s experience with having a deaf mother and how Priscilla’s first language was actually sign language.
How hard it can be losing your mom at a crucial age, such as during the teenage years.
How Priscilla’s mom had to just stop treatment to be with her family in her final days.
How Priscilla’s grief caused her to block out much of her memories from high school.
Priscilla’s experience needing to care for her 8-year-old brother and how that caused her to avoid processing her grief.
The link between depression and grief.
How Priscilla began to self-mutilate as a cry for help.
Dealing with a parent that’s alive and doesn’t want anything to do with you - and how that’s so much worse than a parent being gone that loved you.
Priscilla’s experience of doing everything herself.
The story of Priscilla’s significant other kicking her out.
Priscilla’s story of being put on suicide watch and then making a huge life change and moving from Philly to Florida.
How to use arts and nature as an outlet for expression and a way of keeping yourself busy.
Realizing that grief can cause you to stop playing music and doing the things you love and that keep you healthy.
How to take it day by day and remember that your mother’s spirit is here with you.
Priscilla’s journey to being a funeral director.

Priscilla’s advice is to be patient with yourself. Try taking each day one step at a time and experiment with ways to stay healthy. It could be exercise, nature or the arts. The key is finding whatever works for you.

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How To Become More Confident After Losing Your Mom With Diane Langness

Welcome to Life After Losing Mom With Kat Bonner. In this episode, we’re joined by, Diane Langness. On this episode, Diane shares how joining the military gave her confidence and how you can have more confidence in your life.

What To Listen For

Diane story of piecing together the facts about how her mother died in an accident.
How Diane and her sister were left to basically raise themselves.
The impact that seeing a woman in uniform had on Diane’s life.
How getting involved with other women who have lost their mom enabled Diane to realize she’s not alone.
How losing her mother at a young age played into Diane’s self-esteem growing up.
The idea that being kind to yourself is key to managing your grief.
Strategies for increasing your confidence.
How Diane remembers that her mom is always with her in spirit.

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