Navigating Grief and Healing with Normal Broken Author Kelly Cervantes

Update: 2023-12-13

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RARE MAMAS RISING- EPISODE 34

Navigating Grief and Healing with Normal Broken Author Kelly Cervantes

Kelly Cervantes is the author of Normal Broken: The Grief Companion for When it's Time to Heal But You're Not Sure You Want To. Kelly is an award-winning writer, speaker, and advocate best known for her blog Inchstones, where she shared the stress, love, and joy that came with parenting her medically complex daughter, Adelaide. Since Adelaide's passing, Kelly has continued to write candidly about her arduous and, at times, contradictory grief journey. She has been published in the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Sun-Times, and Cosmopolitan, as well as quoted in the New York Times, CNN, and People. She is the current board chair for the nonprofit CURE Epilepsy and also hosts their biweekly podcast, Seizing Life, where she interviews scientists, doctors, and individuals affected by epilepsy. Kelly resides in Maplewood, NJ, with her husband, Miguel Cervantes currently starring in Hamilton on Broadway, their children, and their dogs. In this episode, Kelly holds our hands and compassionately guides us through grief and healing, allowing us to feel normal broken together.

EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS

Background about Kelly and her family
The journey to writing Normal Broken, and the impact of writing through pain
Navigating anticipatory grief while parenting a medically complex child
Managing comparative and competitive grief
What to do when you're struggling to feel gratitude
Communicating your needs to your partner and understanding your partner's needs when they are different than your own
Taking steps to find and build a community
Kelly's learnings and advice for other rare mamas