What actually holds you up when resilience runs out?

In this episode of Human After All, Tanisha Christie, LCSW, talks through her mother's recent hospitalization and what it means to sit on the other end of a phone, two thousand miles away, while a complicated relationship meets an uncertain ending.

There's history here that doesn't resolve neatly. Distance she needed to survive. And grief but not the kind most people picture. Complicated grief happens when love and harm come from the same person, so the loss doesn't just bring sadness. It also brings relief, anger, guilt, and things that don't cancel each other out no matter how long you sit with them. Tanisha picked up the phone anyway. Her sister held it to their mother's ear. What she said into it, and whether her mother understood it, isn't something this episode resolves for yo ...