Finding Your Voice Through Grief, Loss and Resilience with Julia Poet

Five-time award-winning poet Julia Poet joins Melanie to share her story of young caregiving, grief, substance abuse recovery, and how she turned it all into her debut poetry collection Progression.   What do you do when life hands you one of the hardest stories imaginable — and you realise your greatest purpose is to tell it? In this episode of The Motivate Collective Podcast, Melanie Suzanne Wilson is joined by Julia Poet — five-time award-winning poet, author of Progression, and award-winning public speaker — for a deeply honest conversation about grief, resilience, young caregiving, and finding your voice. Julia shares what it was like to become her mother's caregiver at fifteen, to watch a decade of slow decline, and to lose her at twenty-seven — just two years ago. She opens up about the substance abuse that followed, the grief she is still moving through, and the unlikely source of her recovery: a vision of exactly this moment — sitting here, smiling, sharing her story with the world. She also discusses the real face of high-functioning anxiety, the pressure women face to perform happiness, what it means to speak loudly in a world that keeps asking you to quiet down, and why she believes progression is the only option. Topics covered include: Grief and loss — and the fact that it has no fixed order Young caregiving and its impact on identity, ambition, and mental health Substance abuse recovery Toxic positivity and the silencing of women's voices Finding purpose through adversity Spiritual signs and the comfort of belief Being adopted and carrying multiple forms of loss The relationship between writing and speaking your truth Julia's debut poetry collection Progression — on addiction, grief, loss, love, and overcoming — is available now. Tags: grief, loss, caregiving, resilience, mental health, poetry, personal development, women empowerment, substance abuse recovery, finding your voice, toxic positivity, spiritual beliefs, The Motivate Collective Category: Health & Wellness / Personal Development Author: Melanie Suzanne Wilson Explicit: No