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Apr 18, 2018

Losing a loved parent leaves us feeling displaced and unmoored, unsure where home is. But what if that parent has died a world away, soon after you have left her? Not long after Uma Girish moved to the U.S. her mother was diagnosed with breast cancer in India. Navigating her illness and death, and then grief was especially challenged at such a distance. What does support look like when you are new to a country and when all you have known well is inaccessible to you? How do you find your way in such an unfamiliar landscape? This new territory brought new ways of thinking and cultivated a strength and resilience which was at first unpredicted. And this led to a life dedicated to supporting others, especially women, as they grieved their losses.