Show Notes
Welcome back to Gaining Mom-entum! We hope you enjoy this remixed re-release of season 2’s premiere episodes. Meghan & Abi are so happy to welcome their first guests on Gaining Mom-entum! This week, they sit down with Abi’s dad, Femi, and his partner, Susan, kicking things off with a discussion of time, kind of, but really, what is time? They get into aging and mortality, both from Femi & Susan’s professional perspectives, as well as from a personal viewpoint. Unsurprisingly, things take a bit of an existential turn, which leads to self-care. There are some emotional moments that provide Abi & Meghan with generational wisdom that they hope to embrace in their lives on their own aging journeys. Femi & Susan discuss the perspectives that aging has given them on being grateful and finding hope in the next generations as well as how the current social justice movement might impact how people think about death and dying. They continue on to discuss facing their mortality for the first time and how becoming a parent played into that. Susan & Femi talk about the difference in how they approached play as parents versus how they approach it now as grandparents. Also, Abi & Meghan learn that Susan is a pearls of wisdom machine, so if anyone is interested in creating some GM merch, feel free to get in touch about turning Susan’s pearls into t-shirts! The group also spends a chunk of the convo sharing anecdotes and digging into suggestions for talking to children about death and dying. Thanks for listening! Please share Gaining Mom-entum with friends! IG: @gainingmom_entum Facebook: Gaining Mom-entum Podcast Email: [email protected] Music: Evan Dysart (Follow Dysaart on Spotify and Bandcamp) Artwork: Catherine Cachia (IG: @catherinecachia, catherinecachia.com) Resources for Reading, Listening, & Learning: *Please see season 2, episodes 1 & 2 notes for full resource lists* The Coaching Project (Susan’s website) Talking about death and dying (dyingmatters.org) 5 Reasons to Get Comfortable With Death (HuffPost) Feeling Older? Here’s How to Embrace It (New York Times) 5 Strategies for Accepting Your Mortality (Psychology Today) Dancing with the Cranes by Jeannette Armstrong Cry, Heart, But Never Break by Glenn Ringtved Death: Talking With Kids About The End (npr Life Kit: Parenting podcast) Talking about dying and death (kidsgrief.ca) The Heart and the Bottle by Oliver Jeffers
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