After losing her mom to cancer, Gabi also had to process something harder to explain: the version of her mom she knew was already changing after a brain-altering stroke. She experienced both the slow, painful goodbye of long-term illness and the shock of sudden loss all at once.
She’s also lost her dad, but in a very different way. Highlighting how grief isn’t one-size-fits-all, even within the same life.
Feeling completely alone in what she was going through, Gabi turned to the internet. What started as sharing her story became something bigger: a community of people who get it. People who understand the complicated, messy, and often isolating layers of grief.
Now, she’s taken that pain and turned it into purpose, creating grief coaching services to help others feel less alone in their own stories.
This episode is about the kind of grief we don’t always have language for and what can happen when you decide to speak anyway.
