<p>Some episodes ask big questions. This one just slows everything down.</p><p>Episode 2 of Can&#39;t Call Your Mom is a love note — to you, to your inner child, and to your mom. Nicole opens with something simple and profound: grief needs to be witnessed. Not fixed. Not rushed. Witnessed.</p><p>In this softer, more intimate episode, Nicole shares the healing practice of expression — why saying the things out loud, in a journal, in a voice note, or to a trusted witness, is one of the most powerful tools we have on this grief journey. She also does something deeply vulnerable: she calls her mom. She leaves her a voicemail — live, unscripted, from the heart — and invites you to do the same.</p><p>This episode is permission. Permission to slow down. To say the things you are still carrying. To let yourself be seen — not as someone who has it figured out, but as someone who loved deeply and is still loving through the loss.</p><ul><li><p>Why grief needs witnesses — not solutions — and how to ask for that from the people you trust</p></li><li><p>The power of expression: journaling, voice notes, and verbally processing your grief as a tool for healing</p></li><li><p>Nicole&#39;s story of standing in line at Life Labs alone during fertility testing — and the moment her mom&#39;s name was called</p></li><li><p>The complicated experience of receiving signs from the other side — and why those moments can be both comforting and heartbreaking, especially in the early years</p></li><li><p>Nicole&#39;s live, unscripted voicemail to her mom — raw, real, and full of love</p></li><li><p>What it means to be a generational cycle breaker — and how grief is teaching her family to do love differently</p></li><li><p>The invitation: what do you need to say to your mom that you haven&#39;t yet?</p></li><li><p>The closing reminder: you are not failing. Your heart is healing.</p></li></ul><p><em><strong>&quot;Grief doesn&#39;t need an audience — but it does get lighter when we witness it and hold it together. Those two powerful words: me too. I feel that. You&#39;re not alone in this. That&#39;s when healing happens.&quot; — Nicole Weston</strong></em></p><p><br></p><p>If there are things you wish you could still say to your mom, Nicole invites you to say them anyway. Write them in a journal. Record a voice note in your notes app. Say them out loud in the car. Let the words exist somewhere — because sometimes the most healing thing we can do is say them, even now.</p><p><br></p><p>If you&#39;re open to sharing, send Nicole a voice note. She may read or play it in a future episode. Your words might be exactly what another woman needs to hear.</p><p><strong>About Nicole</strong></p><p>Nicole Weston is a transformational Life Coach, Quantum Change Process™ practitioner, and the founder of Can&#39;t Call Your Mom. She is also a mom, a wife, a business owner, and a motherless mother, a woman who has done the deep work of integrating grief and ambition, and who now walks other women through that same transformation. </p><p><strong>Resources:</strong></p><ul><li><p>Download the free <strong>Can&#39;t Call your mom Anger Workbook Guide</strong> to begin taking care of yourself and moving stuck emotions: <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1F3PxLMIArTwVxMaAI6uyvmoIJiG3IJRkuPIYXZ-h7yk/nicoleweston.ca/workbook"><u>nicoleweston.ca/workbook</u></a>.<a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1F3PxLMIArTwVxMaAI6uyvmoIJiG3IJRkuPIYXZ-h7yk/edit">1</a></p></li></ul><p><strong>Connect with Nicole</strong></p><p><strong>→  Book a free 15-minute connection call: </strong></p><p><a href="https://nicoleweston.as.me/connection"><em>https://nicoleweston.as.me/connection</em></a></p><p><strong>→  Join the Can&#39;t Call Your Mom community:</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/channel/AbZEHq7v2zWhwJfc/"><strong>https://www.instagram.com/channel/AbZEHq7v2zWhwJfc/</strong></a></p><p><strong>→  Website:</strong> <a href="http://www.nicoleweston.ca"><u>www.nicoleweston.ca</u></a></p><p><strong>→  Instagram:</strong>  @thenicoleweston</p><p>Produced by Nicole Weston &amp; Co-Produced by Hunter Blackett</p><p>Photography by Heather Whitcombe<a href="https://www.whitcombecreative.com/"> <u>⁠⁠https://www.whitcombecreative.com/⁠</u></a></p><p><br><strong>If This Episode Resonated: </strong>Please subscribe, leave a review, and share this with a woman in your life who is carrying this. You know someone who lost her mom during Covid and has never had a space to talk about it. Send it to her. Every share reaches another motherless mother who is searching for this community.<br></p><p><br></p>