Episode 22: Welcoming My Daughter, Losing My Mother: Navigating New Motherhood and Grieving from a Distance

🎙️ Episode Title: Between Hello and Goodbye: Navigating Birth and Loss with Carla Berbary

In this emotionally rich episode of The Empowered Grief Journey, I sit down with Carla Berbary, who shares the profound story of welcoming her daughter into the world just five days before losing her beloved mother.

While celebrating the joy of becoming a mother, Carla was simultaneously navigating the deep sorrow of saying goodbye to her own. From Australia, she grieved the loss of her mom who was in Lebanon—separated by oceans and overwhelmed by the emotional contrast of birth and death colliding in a single week.

Carla opens up about the tension of holding both joy and grief at the same time, the guilt and beauty of that experience, and how she now carries her mother’s memory forward through the way she’s raising her daughter. This conversation is a moving reminder that healing doesn’t mean choosing one emotion over another—it means making space for all of it.

🎧 Tune in for a powerful exploration of motherhood, memory, and honoring the people we carry with us.