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How to navigate complicated emotions during Mother’s Day weekend

Dr. Kristen Wynns
Dr. Kristen Wynns

Mother’s Day is just around the corner and many will celebrate the occasion with a little help from families and friends.

But this holiday is not always a happy one. Many are mourning the loss of their mothers. Some are struggling with estrangement. Others are still coping with the loss of a child – or the possibility of having one.

These issues and more can make constant, upbeat reminders of Mother’s Day difficult to process.

Due South chats with a family therapist, who offers advice and recommendations for navigating grief and loss around the holiday.

Guest

Dr. Kristen Wynns, founder and owner of Wynns Family Psychology and author of The No Wimpy Parenting Handbook

Leoneda Inge is the co-host of WUNC's "Due South." Leoneda has been a radio journalist for more than 30 years, spending most of her career at WUNC as the Race and Southern Culture reporter. Leoneda’s work includes stories of race, slavery, memory and monuments. She has won "Gracie" awards, an Alfred I. duPont Award and several awards from the Radio, Television, Digital News Association (RTDNA). In 2017, Leoneda was named "Journalist of Distinction" by the National Association of Black Journalists.
Stacia L. Brown is a writer and audio storyteller who has worked in public media since 2016, when she partnered with the Association of Independents in Radio and Baltimore's WEAA 88.9 to create The Rise of Charm City, a narrative podcast that centered community oral histories. She has worked for WAMU’s daily news radio program, 1A, as well as WUNC’s The State of Things. Stacia was a producer for WUNC's award-winning series, Great Grief with Nnenna Freelon and a co-creator of the station's first children's literacy podcast, The Story Stables. She served as a senior producer for two Ten Percent Happier podcasts, Childproof and More Than a Feeling. In early 2023, she was interim executive producer for WNYC’s The Takeaway.