Podcasts Health Grief Out Loud Ep. 109: Motherless Daughters, 25 Years Later - Hope Edelman & Brennan Wood

Ep. 109: Motherless Daughters, 25 Years Later - Hope Edelman & Brennan Wood

Published: April 3, 2019, 9:02 p.m.

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Back before you could ask Google anything from, \\u201cWhat\\u2019s the best way to clean shower grout?\\u201d to \\u201cHow do I grieve my parent?\\u201d when it came to answering these kinds of questions, we turned to bookstores and libraries to search for answers. In the late 1980\\u2019s and early 1990\\u2019s, even if you did go looking for information about grief, you\\u2019d be more likely to find a dense, clinical textbook than something that could help you understand what you were going through. Then in 1994, Hope Edelman published her groundbreaking book, Motherless Daughters. A book that spoke to thousands of women grieving their mothers. Brennan Wood, Executive Director of The Dougy Center, was one of those readers. Soon after the release of Motherless Daughters, Hope and Brennan met for the first time on the Leeza Gibbons daytime talk show. Twenty-five years later they\\u2019re together again for a conversation about being motherless daughters who grew up to be motherless mothers.\\xa0

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