What happens when being a mom has been the center of your world for so long that you don’t know what to do when your children grow up?

In this Torch Talk, Christine opens up about the emotional reality of empty nesting, the childhood experiences that shaped her parenting, and the unexpected process of rediscovering her identity.

Now, she’s returning to creative dreams she once put aside, exploring podcasting and content creation, and learning to do things even when she’s afraid.

She’s no longer convinced she needs to have herself completely figured out.

This is a conversation for the mom who loves being a mother but knows there’s still a woman inside her with a life to live.

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Content note: Discussion of parental death, gun violence, foster care, and pregnancy loss.

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How do you grieve a baby your children were already expecting while still being the mom they need every day?

Natasha Robinson knows what that feels like.

In this Torch Talk, Natasha opens up about pregnancy during COVID, the fear of bringing her own emotional struggles into motherhood, losing a baby, seeking therapy, and navigating a season of illness and unanswered prayers.

She also shares what happened when she finally stopped telling herself to push through and began acknowledging that she needed help.

Because sometimes the mom who’s taking care of everybody else is the one nobody realizes is struggling.

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Content note: Discussion of pregnancy loss, grief, and mental health.

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What happens when you realize the life you built was shaped by a version of you who never really got to decide who she wanted to be?

Mama Audra was raised in a strict Mormon household where she says her identity was essentially handed to her. She married at 20, became a mom at 22, raised three children, became a teacher and spent years trying to live the life she believed a good woman and mother was supposed to want.

She eventually left the church at 35.

But eight years later, while standing in her kitchen making an apple pie she didn’t even like, Audra realized leaving wasn’t the same thing as knowing herself.

That moment sent her into what she calls “grieving the life unlived” and forced her to confront questions about motherhood, career, identity, and even whether the woman she’d become would still choose the husband she’d married at 20.

This is a conversation about what can happen when a mom finally starts separating what she chose from what she was taught to choose.

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