Episode 29: Nana

Welcome to I Swear on My Mother’s Grave and the finale episode of Season 3. Yay! Three seasons, baby!

I don’t want to bury the lead … so I also want to welcome you to the end of my podcast journey with all of you. This is it, friends. I am turning off the mic after this episode, but I might release a special compilation of conversations you haven’t heard yet at some point … so don’t unsubscribe forever!

It’s hard for me to say goodbye to you all, and to this show, because it has changed my life, AND this is the best community of listeners (and now friends) in the world.

But sometimes things end. Naturally. And that’s how this feels. It feels like the right time. And the right moment in MY grief journey to step away.

So, since goodbyes are hard, it just felt fitting to end this journey talking about preparing to say goodbye to those we love, and to share with you all what I learned about sitting with the dying as I approached my Nana’s death this past summer.

In this episode, you’ll hear an excerpt of a conversation I had with Uma Girish, a spiritual mentor and author, who helped me prepare to say goodbye to my 96-year-old Nana. I’ll tell you what those four days sitting bedside with her were like, as Uma’s advice kept rumbling through my mind and childhood memories of both my mother and my Nana resurfaced … and how maybe this entire podcast journey was leading me to this moment.

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