Episode 6 Postmortem (WILD Podcast)

There’s a grief that creeps in slow.
The kind that doesn’t shatter or announce itself.
It just… settles.
Between the dream of who we thought we’d be,
and the lived truth of who we are now.

In Episode 6, we cracked open the quiet griefs of parenting.
The grief of aging and shifting roles.
The grief of children growing into their own sovereignty.
The grief of estrangement—sometimes chosen, sometimes forced.
The grief of letting go of the version of yourself that thought you’d always know how to do this.

We touched on the myth of the “mini-me,”
and the lie that parenting is about molding someone else
instead of unlearning what control ever promised us in the first place.

There was no fix offered. No ribbon-tied ending.
Just a soft invitation to notice what aches.
To welcome it. To let it speak.

We shone light on:

Letting go of old parental ideals and identities

Estrangement and emotional distance

Grieving loss of control and certainty

Joy and terror in witnessing a child’s sovereignty

Challenging the dominant narratives of parenting as ownership

Let these sit with you. Come back to them later. Or take them to the WILD Chat Room and write through them in community.

Who is the parent I thought I’d be?

Who have I become instead?

What am I grieving about my child—or about my own childhood—that I haven’t made room to feel?

What if the mess isn’t the failure… but the field of becoming?

Here's the chatroom for ongoing convo of this particular kind.