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Growing Up Grieving Podcast

Seasons 1 and 2 are out!🎧🖤⭐️
Grief POV / Grief Humor / Grief Podcast
Host Cait Medugno🎤 🖤
Cohost Alyssa Shepard 🎤❤️
Safe space to speak your griefy truth!!!

04/29/2026

Not goodbye, just a little break. 🫶🏻❤️😘
Xoxo,
Cait

04/19/2026

I always used to joke and say that my parents got lazy and didn’t take any photos of their third child, (me) when I was little.. 🤪

After all, my mother’s pregnancy with me was high risk and her illnesses progressed after giving birth to me, so it’s not like she was busy SURVIVING or anything.. 🙄(HEAVY on the sarcasm.. LOL)

Fast forward some decades and some deaths later, to a random day last summer where my soul-cousin shows up to my house with a special gift for me.. 🥹

Picture upon picture of my christening (and more) that my Auntie Diane took, with so many photos of people who are angels now… 😇

It felt like being hugged by my family from the grave..
I recently stumbled upon the pictures again and cannot put into words how grateful I am for Alyssa and this timeless gift. 💝

Take the photo! 📸❤️

04/14/2026

I used to call you with every little thing.
Now I’m out here updating birds at the cemetery like they’re on my contact list. 📱🗣️

But here’s the thing-
Grief doesn’t take the need to talk away.
It just… reroutes it. 🔄

And if a hawk wants to sit there and listen?
Perfect.
You’re getting all the hot-goss, fam. 💁🏻‍♀️

04/13/2026

Through it ALL- the muck, the sh*t, the good and the bad, I’ve had the honor of being close to my family..❤️

My sisters and my cousins are the most compassionate, fierce and hilarious group of women I’ve ever known.

We have laid so many loved ones to rest together.
We have also celebrated each other, clapped for each other and been there for each other when life turned sideways. 🙃

You can’t choose your family but I’m lucky that I don’t need to. These are the people I’d pick over and over and over again.. ❤️

04/12/2026

Everyone needs downtime every now and then. ☕️
is a great day to do it. 🩵

Reset.
Refresh.
And DO NOT disturb!

04/11/2026

Today marks the 1 year anniversary of my brother in law Marks passing.

Mark,
You were a hilarious, kindhearted son of a gun and we are so honored to have known you. ❤️‍🩹

Fly high 😇

04/10/2026

Loss changes you ❤️‍🩹

There is before loss, and after..

When you lose foundational people in your life, suddenly you realize that there’s not just a gaping hole in your heart, but there’s also a major difference in who you are - the person that remains. 🥹

I think most of us wish we could go back to the life we had before the loss, at least for the nostalgia.. but I’ve come to a point with my grief in my life-journey where I’m actually happy with who I have become as a result of it. 🩵

I am still me: sassy, loud-mouthed and fierce as ever - and I’m so much softer, now too.. ❤️‍🩹

My heart has grown big enough that I’ve even started to love myself for exactly who I am in every moment, good and bad. 😘

I’ve proudly learned to use this New England “masshole” of a voice to speak my truth, and sometimes I truly wonder if I’d ever get here without losing my beloved parents.

If you’re feeling different now, it’s because you are.
But I promise you, there is hope for you yet. ❤️❤️❤️

04/06/2026

I consider myself a bit of a grief connoisseur…
A collector of funeral cards, a daily visitor to my “dead,” someone who knows this terrain a little too well..🪦💔

But here’s the thing no one tells you- 🤫
You don’t graduate from grief.
You don’t outgrow it.
You don’t become immune…

Because just when you think you’ve got it handled…
another wave shows up and humbles you real quick.🌊

Stay vigilant, friends..
And maybe don’t get too cocky…
because the next wave is already on its way.
🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊

03/31/2026

There’s so many things I miss now that my parents have died… 😭

Their unwavering support for me is something I really miss the most. 🥹

As a parent myself, I know how unconditional my love for my kids are and I really miss having that feeling for myself. 😢

The best I can do is be there for my kids and carry on the tradition… to love them without bounds and support them with whatever they’re going through. ❤️❤️❤️

With so many things to miss, what do YOU miss most?

03/30/2026

We celebrated my daughter’s birthday this weekend, and I found this photo of her with my Gram shortly after she was born. 🥹

I remember that moment so clearly—Gram holding her, looking around the room like she couldn’t believe what she was seeing.🥰

“Four generations later… can you believe it?”

She was so proud to be there for that. Like she needed to witness it.. She died the next year.💔

1925 → 1950 → 1986 → 2014
Four generations… just like she said.
How blessed we were!!! 🥰🥰

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