EP 45: The Myth of Getting Over It & Mother Hunger

In this episode of Soul Therapy, with Chelle, we continue exploring Motherless Daughters by Hope Edelman - a conversation that began as a book review and has deepened into a kind of masterclass on grief, healing, and self-awareness.

We unpack two profound themes: the myth of “getting over it” and mother hunger - that lifelong ache for unconditional safety and belonging. Edelman reminds us that grief isn’t something we leave behind; it’s a landscape we learn to live within.

Through the lens of Gestalt therapy, Chelle explores how unfinished grief lives in the body - as tension, fatigue, or restlessness - quietly asking to be felt. And how awareness itself becomes an act of love: the first step in transforming pain into presence.

This reflection invites you to meet your grief with gentleness, to listen to what your body remembers, and to tend to the longing within you - not by forcing closure, but by allowing connection.

✨ In this episode, we reflect on:

• The myth of “moving on” and what healing truly means

• Mother hunger - the longing for a nurturing presence that feels like home

• How Gestalt therapy helps complete the “cycle of experience” so emotions can rest

• The body as a bridge between awareness and the unconscious

• Finding integration - where grief softens into wisdom and wholeness

Grief doesn’t end. But as we grow around it, it begins to guide us - back to ourselves, and back to love.

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