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New York Girl Again - The After
When caregiving ends, who are you? New York Girl Again helps former caregivers rediscover their identity, strength, and joy after profound loss. Join host Thérèse for honest conversations about navigating grief, healing, and courageously building a vibrant new life. You deserve your next chapter.
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Episodes
57 episodes
Movement Is Healing: Strong for Myself Now
In this episode of New York Girl Again – The After, the Movement Is Healing series continues with a different kind of movement: strength training.After exploring dance, joy, body image, and the courage to be seen, this ep...
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Movement Is Healing: The Courage to Be Seen
This week on New York Girl Again – The After, we continue the Movement Is Healing series with Theresa Gratton, the owner and creative genius behind Flying Fabrics by Theresa, and a lifelong dancer with over 40 years of ex...
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Movement Is Healing: Out of Your Head, Into Your Body
For years, caregiving forces you to live entirely in your head—scanning the room, anticipating emergencies, managing schedules, and predicting what could go wrong next. But what happens to the body that carried you through all that survi...
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Pivot… Pivot: What Caregiving Teaches Us About Flexibility
In this episode of New York Girl Again – The After, Thérèse reflects on one of the many important skills caregiving teaches us: flexibility.This week’s planned conversation with Theresa Gratton, founder of ...
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The After: A New Season Begins
Welcome to Season 2 of New York Girl Again – The After. Exactly one year ago, on Father’s Day, I launched the very first episode of this podcast. I chose Father’s Day intentionally becau...
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The After Was Never The End
What happens when the relentless rhythm of caregiving suddenly stops? In our Season One finale, we confront the overwhelming silence of 'The After' and explore the profound realization that grief isn’t just about los...
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The Exhaustion of Holding On: Why Surrender is Your Secret Strength
Caregivers are fighters. We fight disease. We fight decline. We fight impossible odds. We fight for one more holiday, one more birthday, one more good day. But what happens when the care...
The People Who Wake Us Up
What happens when someone who has spent years surviving caregiving, grief, obligation, and profound isolation suddenly wakes back up emotionally? In this milestone 50th episode, Thérèse shares a deeply personal...
Don’t Speak to Me That Way
How long have you been speaking to yourself in ways that would break the heart of someone who loves you? In Episode 49 of New York Girl Again – The After, Thérèse explores the brutal inner voice many caregivers are left ...
Motherless on Mother’s Day
Mother’s Day can feel unbearable after losing your mother — especially if you were also her caregiver. In this deeply personal episode, Thérèse explores the invisible grief of becoming motherless in “the After” of caregiving:...
Is There Really Good in Goodbye?
Is there really good in goodbye? In this episode of New York Girl Again – The After, Thérèse explores what happens after loss—not just the absence of your person, but the layers of grief that follow. From identity...
Greg’s Velveteen Rabbit: What Love Leaves Behind
“By the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby.” Most of us remember The Velveteen Rabbit as a charming nursery tale. But for a...
Did You Love Too Much… or Were You Wired to Care That Deeply?
Do caregivers really “love too much”… or does something deeper happen? In this episode of New York Girl Again – The After, Thérèse reflects on a moment that stayed with her for years—her mother telling her, “You l...
Holding the Impossible: The Paradox of The After
You can miss them… and still want your life back. You can feel grief… and relief. If life after caregiving feels confusing… you’re not alone. In this episode, Thérèse explores the emotional reality of life af...
You Are Allowed to Want a Beautiful Life
After caregiving ends, many people find themselves asking: Am I allowed to want a beautiful life? In this episode of New York Girl Again – The After, Thérèse explores what it means to move for...
The Caregiver’s Limbo: Living in the Space Between "Then" and "Next"
Caregiving ends. But no one prepares you for what comes after. Not the silence. Not the space. Not the feeling of standing somewhere between the life you were living… and the one you’re supposed to build ...
The Part of Caregiving No One Warns Women About
Why do so many women put themselves last—especially in caregiving?In this episode of New York Girl Again – The After, Thérèse explores the deeper truth behind this pattern—one that goes far beyond personality or choice.
Who Am I Now? Life After Caregiving
March is Women’s History Month, and on New York Girl Again – The After we’re continuing our series exploring the strength, sacrifice, and resilience of women caregivers. For years, caregiving can shape every part of ...
Women Who Carry the World
On International Women’s Day, we celebrate women’s leadership, achievements, and progress. But there is another group of women whose strength is rarely recognized. Women caregivers. In the U...
The Consent to Thaw
March doesn’t explode into color. It softens first. The ground shifts. The air changes. Something underground begins to move — long before anyone sees a single bloom. Life after ca...
Discipline Is the New Devotion
Caregiving demanded discipline. You didn’t operate on feelings - you operated on commitment. Medications were on time. Appointments were kept. You showed up — every single day.
From Collapsed to Capable: Building the Temple After Caregiving
There is a kind of exhaustion that only caregivers understand.It is a weight that does not simply disappear when the caregiving ends.As the adrenaline fades and the world quiets, the grief often settles into the body itself — int...
A Love Note to the Eyes That Watched: Healing the Mirror Gaze
What happens when caregiving ends… and you finally look at yourself again? In Episode 35 of New York Girl Again – The After, Thérèse invites caregivers into one of the most avoided — and most healing — spaces of the After: ...
The Caregiver’s Debt: A Permission Slip to Inhabit Your Own Life
Why does self-love feel so uncomfortable? For caregivers, love has been synonymous with sacrifice for so long that focusing on ourselves can feel like "stealing" from a debt we can never fully repay. We call this The Caregiver’s Debt—...