Snapshot · The Mel Robbins Podcast
Unacknowledged grief from Mother Hunger becomes frozen in the body's cells, bones, and joints, contributing to the prevalence of autoimmune problems in women.
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At 54:56 · chapter starts 54:20
One of the episode's most viscerally affecting passages arrives when Kelly describes what happens to grief that has never been acknowledged. Unlike named losses — a death, a diagnosis — Mother Hunger grief had no culturally sanctioned outlet. No support group, no casserole on the doorstep. So the body did what it does: it froze it. [1] — Kelly McDaniel "When grief from Mother Hunger has no name and no culturally sanctioned space to be processed, the body freezes it — storing it in cells, bo…" 54:18 Kelly describes that frozen grief as living in the cells, the bones, the joints — and draws a direct connection to the disproportionate rate of autoimmune conditions in women. As soon as someone names it, the grief begins to thaw. And thawing grief is not quiet: it arrives as rage, sadness, numbness, and the near-biological craving for an apology that Kelly is about to name.
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