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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.
Connect with us at NewYorkGirlAgain.com, and on Instagram @NYGirlAgain and Facebook at New York Girl Again. Subscribe now and let's rise, together.
Episodes
39 episodes
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...
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Season 1
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Episode 39
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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...
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Season 1
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Episode 38
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9:31
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.
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Season 1
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Episode 37
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9:56
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...
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Episode 36
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26:09
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: ...
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Season 1
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Episode 35
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14:22
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—...
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Season 1
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Episode 34
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12:24
Joy Was the Plot Twist
What if the reason you feel stuck in the After isn’t a lack of discipline — but a missing spark? In this episode, Thérèse shares a deeply personal chapter from her life after caregiving: a long, quiet season when grief settled in...
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Season 1
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Episode 33
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12:01
Body Burnout: The Cost of Caring and the Path Back
Caregiving doesn’t just exhaust your heart — it leaves a mark on your body. In this deeply honest episode, Thérèse speaks to the physical aftermath so many caregivers carry in silence: the pain, the weight changes, the...
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Season 1
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Episode 32
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13:25
Learning How to Hold Yourself Again in the After
After caregiving ends, many caregivers are left with an unexpected question: If I’m no longer in survival mode…why do I feel so unsteady? In this episode of New York Girl Again – The After, Thérèse explores a skill no caregiver ...
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Episode 31
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8:11
After Survival Strength Runs Dry
There comes a moment in The After when the immense strength that carried you through caregiving simply… runs dry. And when that happens, many caregivers ask themselves:How did I survive all of that — fo...
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Season 1
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Episode 30
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10:22
December’s Healing Series – Stepping Forward
In this final episode of December’s Healing Series, Thérèse brings the month to a close by integrating everything we’ve practiced together —The Gentle Return,Strong Enough to Begin Again,When Survival Is No ...
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Season 1
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Episode 29
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10:09
December’s Healing Series – Don’t Lose Yourself This December
December has a way of pulling us back into old roles, old expectations, and old emotional patterns — even after we’ve done deep healing. In this episode, Thérèse speaks directly to caregivers in The After who are moving thr...
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Season 1
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Episode 28
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10:23
December’s Healing Series – When Survival Is No Longer Enough
There comes a moment in healing when simply getting through the day isn’t enough anymore. In this third episode of December’s Healing Series, Thérèse explores what happens when caregivers in The After feel a quiet pul...
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Season 1
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Episode 27
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11:46
December’s Healing Series - Strong Enough to Begin Again
Caregiving reshapes a person at every level — physically, emotionally, spiritually. And when it ends, most caregivers don’t feel “strong.” They feel emptied out. Unsteady. Disconnected from their bodies. Unsure how to s...
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Season 1
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Episode 26
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20:53
December’s Healing Series – The Gentle Return
December can feel heavy for former caregivers. While the world rushes into celebration, many of us struggle with grief, longing, disorientation, and the ache of no longer knowing where we fit. In this opening episo...
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Season 1
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Episode 25
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13:12
Gratitude & Grace in The After
In this fourth installment of The Month of the Unsung Heart, Thérèse guides you into the tender, complicated, utterly human reality of gratitude and grace after caregiving ends — especially for those navigating the holiday se...
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Season 1
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Episode 24
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15:37
Legacy of Love
When caregiving ends, something unexpected begins — a quiet unfolding of all the love, wisdom, and strength they left within you. In this powerful third installment of the Month of the Unsung Heart for National Fam...
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Season 1
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Episode 23
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17:14
The After Begins With You
Last week, we honored the strength that carried you through caregiving — the quiet heroism that too often goes unseen. This week, we take the next step forward. Because once you’ve honored where you’ve been… you can finally...
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Season 1
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Episode 22
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14:10
The 'After' Still Deserves Honor
When caregiving ends, the world goes quiet — but your heart doesn’t.In this opening episode of The Month of the Unsung Heart, Thérèse explores what it means to honor the season after caregiving...
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Season 1
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Episode 21
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15:22
The Heart That Hears What the World Ignores
A love story between empathy and endurance — inside the caregiver’s heart. There’s a rare kind of heart that doesn’t just beat — it listens. It hears pain that isn’t spoken.
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Season 1
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Episode 20
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17:54
Why Is Starting Over So Hard in the 'After'?
When caregiving ends, your brain doesn’t simply “turn off.” It’s still wired for crisis, vigilance, and someone else’s needs — even when the world tells you to just relax. In this deeply insightful episode, Thérès...
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Season 1
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Episode 19
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17:35
Your Peace Is Not Up for Negotiation: Boundaries in the ‘After’ of Caregiving.
Are you struggling to say "No" now that your caregiving journey has ended? You are not alone. This episode is for the caregiver who survived the hardest chapter of their life, only to find that their instinct to over-give is sti...
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Season 1
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Episode 18
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25:36
A Shadow Friend Called Fear — In Caregiving and Beyond
Fear has a way of slipping in quietly and making itself at home. Through caregiving. Through loss. Through the “after.” In this deeply personal episode, Thérèse explores the many faces of fear that accompan...
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Season 1
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Episode 17
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22:17
Giving Again: How Volunteering Helps Heal the Caregiver’s Heart
In this powerful episode of New York Girl Again – The After, host Thérèse explores a beautiful and often unexpected path to healing after caregiving: volunteering. Through moving storytelling and psychological insight, Thérèse gu...
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Season 1
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Episode 16
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17:06