Latest Mother loss Podcast Episodes
Just Get Over It
Nurturing Words: Voices of Experience - June 21, 2024 08:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThis week’s episode looks at the pressure so many of us put on ourselves to “move on” and be okay again. But, grief is a winding road and a lifelong journey. We explore ways we can aid ourselves in our healing journey. "Maya" is sharing part of her story to encourage and let us know we are not a...
Voices of Volunteers - Part 6
Nurturing Words: Voices of Experience - June 07, 2024 08:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThe Motherless Daughters Ministry is fortunate to have a team of great volunteers. This series highlights MDM podcast administrator, Sarah Lynn Wells, interviewing volunteers to learn more about their stories of getting involved with the ministry. All of us are motherless daughters, but everyone...
The Motherless Mother - Our True Comforter
Nurturing Words: Voices of Experience - May 24, 2024 08:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsSome motherless daughters find parenting a challenge without their mother. Whether it is not having their mother physically there anymore or not having had a positive motherly role model it can feel lonely and overwhelming parenting as a motherless daughter. Sarah Lynn Wells, Podcast Administra...
Here It Comes - Mother's Day
Nurturing Words: Voices of Experience - May 10, 2024 08:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsMother's Day can be a challenging day for motherless daughters. There are as many reasons for its challenging nature as there are individuals. Every situation is unique, but we all understand and identify with the impact on our lives. Regardless of the type of loss, the day can be heavy. This ep...
I'm Fine, You're Fine, We're All Fine!
Nurturing Words: Voices of Experience - April 26, 2024 08:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsIn our busy lives, it can be so easy to stuff our grief down and fill our minds with anything else. We live busy, fast-paced lives with many things that vie for our attention. All of those things can become the “anything else” that fills our minds, helps us avoid feeling the grief, and convinc...
Will I Ever Be Enough?
Nurturing Words: Voices of Experience - April 12, 2024 08:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThis week’s episode gives a review of the book, Will I Ever Be Good Enough? Healing the Daughters of the Narcissistic Motherby Dr. Karyl McBride. Cathy DiBella, one of our volunteers who is a blog writer as well as a facilitator, shares what the book covers and how it can help women who have a n...
The Journey Retreat
Nurturing Words: Voices of Experience - March 29, 2024 08:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThe Motherless Daughters Ministry’s flagship offering is The “Journey Retreat: Healing the Wounds of Mother Loss One Step at a Time.” It is designed to assist you in resuming, continuing, or starting the path to healing from the impact of mother loss. This is an in-person retreat for motherless...
Daughters Without Mothers
Nurturing Words: Voices of Experience - March 15, 2024 08:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsMotherless Daughters Minstry’s podcast administrator, Sarah Lynn Wells, interviewed Maryann Rousseau. Maryann has started a new platform, Daughters Without Mothers, which is a place to share stories of hope from women who have experienced mother loss. Listen to hear more about Maryann’s story an...
The Stories My Mom Shared with Me
Nurturing Words: Voices of Experience - March 01, 2024 09:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsMemories that bring a smile to your face are great tools to help through the grief journey. This week our episode focuses on how we can keep our mother’s memory alive for ourselves and others around us. Blog writer, Julie Thompson, shares one way she found comfort in carrying on something impor...
Learning to Forgive
Nurturing Words: Voices of Experience - February 16, 2024 09:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsBeing hurt by those you look to for nurturing and support is most painful. It is challenging to continue hoping to have expectations for a loving relationship fulfilled. Learning to forgive under these circumstances is even more challenging. This episode features blog writer, Rekita Chenault, a...
Voices of Volunteers - Part 5
Nurturing Words: Voices of Experience - February 02, 2024 09:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThe Motherless Daughters Ministry (MDM) is blessed to have an active team of volunteers. MDM podcast administrator, Sarah Lynn Wells, has conducted interviews to learn more about their stories of getting involved with the ministry. Each episode highlights how they have seen God use their stories...
Season of Searching
Nurturing Words: Voices of Experience - January 19, 2024 09:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsA season can be defined as a period identified by a set of distinguishing characteristics. This episode features another blog by C.A. Bleu which reveals her journey into reflection on the past year of growth. Her “season of searching” included courageous exploration of truths that were “struggli...
Broken & Remade
Nurturing Words: Voices of Experience - January 05, 2024 09:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsA well-known quote says “It’s always darkest just before the dawn.” This episode shares one of the darkest nights in the life of author, C.A. Bleu. Out of the ashes of this experience arises a breakthrough to a new beginning on a firm foundation. Resources Podcast Episode highlights a blog fr...
Christmas Hope
Nurturing Words: Voices of Experience - December 22, 2023 13:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsIn the spirit of Thanksgiving, this episode is focused on gratitude. Both God’s Word and psychology point to the significant benefits of cultivating a practice of gratitude in our lives. When we are struggling with grief or pain, it can feel hard to focus on gratitude. But gratitude can be an im...
When the Holidays Are Bittersweet
Nurturing Words: Voices of Experience - December 08, 2023 09:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThere’s such pressure to enjoy and be happy during the holiday season. But, for a motherless daughter, it can feel more like the loneliest rather than a wonderful time of the year. This episode looks at Julie Thompson’s story of finding moments of joy among the grief during the holidays. Reso...
Cultivating Thankfulness That Can't Be Erased
Nurturing Words: Voices of Experience - November 24, 2023 09:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsIn the spirit of Thanksgiving, this episode is focused on gratitude. Both God’s word and psychology point to the significant benefits of cultivating a practice of gratitude in our life. When we are struggling with grief or pain in our life, it can feel hard to focus on gratitude. But gratitude c...
Voices of Volunteers - Part 4
Nurturing Words: Voices of Experience - November 10, 2023 09:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThe fourth episode of a series highlighting Motherless Daughters Ministry volunteers. MDM podcast administrator, Sarah Lynn Wells, interviews volunteers to learn more about their stories of getting involved with the ministry. We will be highlighting various volunteers in this series to learn mor...
When Guilt Sets In
Nurturing Words: Voices of Experience - October 27, 2023 08:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsMotherless Daughters can experience a range of negative emotions as they process and work through their grief journey. For some, one of those negative emotions included in their grief is guilt. There can be a variety of reasons motherless daughters feel guilt, but no matter why it adds complicat...
Finding True Rest
Nurturing Words: Voices of Experience - October 13, 2023 08:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsIn our world, busyness is often praised and valued. But as motherless daughters, we often find that constant busyness and distractions only deepen our struggles and longing for peace. It may help distract us temporarily, but we need true healing. God can bring us peace and healing when we find t...
Voices of Volunteers - Part 3
Nurturing Words: Voices of Experience - September 29, 2023 08:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThis new series highlights MDM podcast administrator, Sarah Lynn Wells, interviewing volunteers to learn more about their stories of getting involved with the ministry. We will learn about the work they do with MDM, how they have seen God use their stories to help others, and what they’ve learn...
You Will be Healed
Nurturing Words: Voices of Experience - September 15, 2023 08:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWhether we lost our mom as a young child or later in life, there is a pain left behind that we wish God could heal so we never feel it again. But, the reality is our grief and struggles are a journey. We will never be free of pain and struggle on this side of Heaven. This episode is based on the...
From Ashes to Beauty
Nurturing Words: Voices of Experience - September 01, 2023 08:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsHeather Wolper is the author of 25 blogs in our library. Through her writing, she opens up the door to allow us to experience her grief journey. This episode highlights the powerful tools that fueled her journey. “Bringing Beauty From Ashes” and “He Makes Beauty out of Ashes” will encourage your...
The Value of "The EAM"
Nurturing Words: Voices of Experience - August 18, 2023 12:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings“The EAM” is “The Emotionally Absent Mother” course offered by The Motherless Daughters Ministry. Our guest writer shared what this course meant to her in the blog, “What ‘The Emotionally Absent Mother’ Class Has Done for Me.” After years of struggling through emotions connected to a painful pas...
Voices of Volunteers - Part 2
Nurturing Words: Voices of Experience - August 04, 2023 12:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsOur new series highlights The Motherless Daughters Ministry volunteers. MDM podcast administrator, Sarah Lynn Wells, interviews volunteers to learn more about their stories of getting involved with the ministry. We will be highlighting various volunteers in this series to learn more about the wo...
Mothering Without a Mother
Nurturing Words: Voices of Experience - July 21, 2023 12:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsMotherhood is a challenge under the best circumstances to say nothing of doing it without your own mother. This is especially true for those others who grew up I a home with an emotionally absent mother. This episode looks at ways to become more confident as a mother and create connections with ...
True Freedom
Nurturing Words: Voices of Experience - July 07, 2023 08:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsAs we have been thinking about freedom this week while celebrating the 4th of July, many of us struggle to feel freedom in our personal lives as we are stuck in our grief and pain. One of our Motherless Daughters Ministry participants shares her testimony of finding a way out of that into true f...
Survival Mode
Nurturing Words: Voices of Experience - June 23, 2023 08:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsA Motherless Daughters Ministry blogger shares her thoughts on being stuck in survival mode. She shares her experience of loss and how it affected her faith and relationship with God. She shares encouragement on how she was able to find healing and draw closer to God while healing long-held pain...
Voices of Volunteers - M.E. Collins
Nurturing Words: Voices of Experience - June 09, 2023 08:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWho are the people doing the work behind the scenes for the Motherless Daughters Ministry? This episode is the first in a series highlighting MDM volunteers. Sarah Lynn Wells interviews our volunteers to learn more about what they do, what they have learned, and how God has used their story to h...
Unveiled Faces
Nurturing Words: Voices of Experience - May 26, 2023 12:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsOur self-image is greatly influenced by the repeated messages and images we received as children about ourselves from others. As adults, we have the ability to discard destructive beliefs that hinder our vision. Gina Ellis, Motherless Daughters Ministry (MDM) volunteer, shares one of her blogs...
Who We Truly Are
Nurturing Words: Voices of Experience - May 19, 2023 12:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsGuest blogger, Cathy Crosby shared her journey of self-discovery with the Mother[ess Daughters Ministry. Along the way, she realized God “has taken my career struggles and being a motherless daughter to help me discover that my true identity is not found in a job, nor is it in being labeled moth...
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