In this episode we’ll be talking about our fresh start with our new life without our mother from moving, going back to school, and how someone copes with a new life changing situation.

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In today’s episode John and I will be talking about our mother’s alleged alcoholism leading to her suicide and how her life story and death has sparked advocacy of mental health and suicide awareness in our family and how that change mirrors today’s shift in society towards mental health awareness.

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In this episode, Michelle and John retell their traumatic experience with losing their mother. Listen as they go into detail about the day before their mother’s death; the calming before the storm, to the day of her death and how traumatic it was for the 14 and 15 year old John and Michelle to wake up to a dead body, and finally the 3 day funeral of their mother.

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“I didn’t care that my feet were bleeding on the gravel road because your life was on the line. Your pale face, blue lips, cold hands, and the smell of alcohol on you was all I needed to know. I’d lost the one woman who cared for me and gave me everything. I used to be outgoing and full of life. I couldn’t believe the reality I was living in. I watched as they carried your lifeless body out on a stretcher. That moment right there was when I died along side you, mom.”

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In this intro episode, we begin with starting off the podcast with a short personal narrative voicemail by Michelle about starting a conversation with her mother in the hopes of regaining memories of her again.

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