Show notes
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.
Resources From This Episode:
Follow Kat: