EPISODE · May 27, 2026 · 42 MIN
16. Motherless Mother: Finding Joy, Rage, and Spiritual Co-Creation After Loss with Kristen Brandao
from Can't Call Your Mom with Nicole Weston · host Nicole Weston | Motherless mothers navigating life after motherloss
In this powerful episode of Can’t Call Your Mom, Nicole sits down with Kristen to explore the complex layers of Mother’s Day grief and the transformative journey of the motherless mother. Kristen shares her deeply personal experience of repressing mother loss for seven years, wearing "armor" to stay strong, until an existential crisis on her 40th birthday cracked her wide open.Kristen’s breakthrough came through the power of writing. By leaning into curiosity, she realized that by numbing her grief, she had also blocked her capacity for joy. Through her debut memoir, Magenta Me, she moved through layers of subconscious programming and inner child work to find radical forgiveness and a new spiritual, co-creative relationship with her mother.As Kristen beautifully dedicates in her book:"For my mom. When I asked the light, it told me to write our beautiful love story. In the end, I found the light was you."Feeling to Heal: Understanding that you must feel the pain of loss to truly experience the heights of joy.The Spiritual Connection: Shifting from a physical absence to a spiritual presence where conversations with Mom continue through intuition and creativity.Breaking Generational Cycles: How healing our own wounds allows us to mother our children with more presence and emotional intelligence.Kristen Brandao hit forty and flipped the script on her life. She went from a highly anxious, emotionally burned-out, over-extended healthcare practitioner, wife and mother of two to owning her story, stepping into her creative power and re-writing the narrative in her midlife memoir Magenta Me. She credits her seven-year suppression of grief after the loss of her mother to the breakdown through which she discovered the portal back to curiosity, creativity and connection to self. She endeavours to share her story vulnerably with the world to inspire others to integrate their grief. Kristen’s Book: Magenta Me launches on June 25th. If you are in the Burlington area, join the book launch celebration at Spencer’s on the [email protected] on Instagram Magenta Me book launchkristenbrandao.comConnect with Nicole:📧 Join The Four O'Clock Club : a weekly email community sent at 4:00 PM https://www.nicoleweston.ca/blog💻 Virtual Community Call — June 11st at 12 PM ET (free, registration required)https://www.nicoleweston.ca/communitycallWork with Nicole: Book a free 20 minute introductory call with Nicole https://nicoleweston.as.me/introductorycallInstagram: @thenicoleweston
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In this powerful episode of Can’t Call Your Mom, Nicole sits down with Kristen to explore the complex layers of Mother’s Day grief and the transformative journey of the motherless mother. Kristen shares her deeply personal experience of repressing mother loss for seven years, wearing "armor" to stay strong, until an existential crisis on her 40th birthday cracked her wide open.Kristen’s breakthrough came through the power of writing. By leaning into curiosity, she realized that by numbing her grief, she had also blocked her capacity for joy. Through her debut memoir, Magenta Me, she moved through layers of subconscious programming and inner child work to find radical forgiveness and a new spiritual, co-creative relationship with her mother.As Kristen beautifully dedicates in her book:"For my mom. When I asked the light, it told me to write our beautiful love story. In the end, I found the light was you."Feeling to Heal: Understanding that you must feel the pain of loss to truly experience the heights of joy.The Spiritual Connection: Shifting from a physical absence to a spiritual presence where conversations with Mom continue through intuition and creativity.Breaking Generational Cycles: How healing our own wounds allows us to mother our children with more presence and emotional intelligence.Kristen Brandao hit forty and flipped the script on her life. She went from a highly anxious, emotionally burned-out, over-extended healthcare practitioner, wife and mother of two to owning her story, stepping into her creative power and re-writing the narrative in her midlife memoir Magenta Me. She credits her seven-year suppression of grief after the loss of her mother to the breakdown through which she discovered the portal back to curiosity, creativity and connection to self. She endeavours to share her story vulnerably with the world to inspire others to integrate their grief. Kristen’s Book: Magenta Me launches on June 25th. If you are in the Burlington area, join the book launch celebration at Spencer’s on the [email protected] on Instagram Magenta Me book launchkristenbrandao.comConnect with Nicole:📧 Join The Four O'Clock Club : a weekly email community sent at 4:00 PM https://www.nicoleweston.ca/blog💻 Virtual Community Call — June 11st at 12 PM ET (free, registration required)https://www.nicoleweston.ca/communitycallWork with Nicole: Book a free 20 minute introductory call with Nicole https://nicoleweston.as.me/introductorycallInstagram: @thenicoleweston
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