Mothering Without Mom with Elina Shatkin

Writer, multimedia journalist and a producer for KCRW's Good Food, Elina Shatkin, joins us for a candid, moving conversation about what it's like to lose her mother unexpectedly (while  she was 7 months pregnant), right before caring for her newborn daughter. Elina and her mom immigrated from Ukraine (in the former USSR) in the late 1970s, and she was raised with a single mom's "scrappy," hard working sensibility. Now, nearly a decade after losing her mom Tatyana Melnick, Elina is emerging from her grief to talk about the stories she feels she can finally tell, and future pathways to honoring her mom's memory in her creative practices.  For our FYC segment, Megan brings the hit TV series Heated Rivalry to the table as an experience that helps viewers get beyond "catastrophizing."