S3 E10: Pt 2 The Child I Let Go, The Child Who Stayed

This episode continues the motherhood arc of the series — moving back in time to an earlier chapter in Jacqueline’s life, when as a much younger woman she faced another kind of loss: placing a child for adoption under circumstances of shame, isolation, fear, and emotional abandonment.Told with tenderness and reverence, this story explores the love that surged through her body at birth, the grief she carried in silence, and the belief — born from generational wounds — that sacrifice might break a cycle she did not yet have the tools to understand.Across time, three children would shape her understanding of love:one she let go,one who was taken,and one who stayed and grew beside her.Each held a different form of love.Each carried a different form of grief.All of them remain in her heart.This is not a story of regret or justification — but of becoming.Of a woman who loved with what she had, survived what she never should have had to endure, and is now reclaiming the meaning of love with compassion for every version of herself who did the best she could.—Includes a grounding breathwork practice and a reflection invitation for listeners who carry complex motherhood, generational trauma, or unresolved grief in their own stories.