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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
46 episodes
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...
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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—...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...