Healing the Mother Line: Grief, Growth, and the One Thing We Need to Show Up for Our Kids with Stephanie Rousseau

Episode 14: What happens when the story you’ve been carrying about your mother—and yourself—starts to change?

In this intimate and powerful episode, I sit down with mindset coach Stephanie Rousseau for a deeply honest conversation about mothers, daughters, grief, self-compassion, and the healing that’s possible when we choose to shift our perspective.

Stephanie shares how her mother’s experience with stage four lung cancer pushed her to reframe years of resentment and disappointment into compassion, clarity, and peace. She opens up about her journey through grief, boundary-setting, therapy, and the powerful realization that she didn’t have to fix her mom—or herself—to create emotional freedom.

Together, we explore:

• The complexity and power of mother-daughter relationships 
• The pain of watching a parent struggle with addiction—and trying to help
• What it means to be a generational interrupter as a mom today
• The shift from self-judgment to self-compassion—and how it changes everything
• The impact of your own healing on your children
• And so much more!
  
  

Stephanie also shares simple, practical tips for cultivating self-compassion, building emotional capacity, and showing up as a leader in your own life—even while you're still healing.

This episode is a beautiful invitation to release old stories and resentments, soften into the freedom of compassion, and step into the truth of who you really are.

✨ About Stephanie Rousseau:
Stephanie is a certified life and mindset coach, podcast hose, and an incredible mother to two teenage girls. She specializes in helping women shift from judgement to compassion so they can live as the most confident, aligned version of themselves.

Follow her on Instagram and check out her podcast, Pivot on Purpose, and grab her Judgement Detox Guide!

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Transcript

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Welcome to the Girls Who Recover podcast with Dana Hunter Fradella, where incredible women just like you, go to transform life's biggest setbacks into your most powerful comebacks so that you can live a life you. Love. I'm your host, Dana Hunter Fradella, transformational coach and founder of Girls Who Recover, and my mission is to pull back the curtain on our mistakes, failures, shame and personal disasters, and light the way for how to use those to create your biggest and most gorgeous comebacks. Follow the show now. Grab your iced coffee and turn up the volume for girls who recover. Let's light it up. Whoa. Did you just feel what I felt? There's a whole lot of that and so much more to inspire you to create miracles in your own life on upcoming episodes of the Girls Who Recover podcast. And if you loved that episode, as much as I love making it follow the show, give it a gorgeous rating and a five star review, and then share it with your best friend to be a light in her life. And don't let the fun stop here. You can find me on Instagram at Girls Who Recover. For more ways to create a life that takes your breath away. And Sister, in case you haven't heard it today, I love you. I'm so proud of you, and I believe in your ability to create a gorgeous life you love starting right now. See you in the next episode. And.