How to Keep Living When Your Entire World Collapses

Gillian Sage was on holiday in Portugal when she got the news that her 17 year old son Thomas had been killed in a car accident. It was 2002. He was in the back seat of a friend's car. Three other boys in that car survived. Please visit our website for more information: http://www.hersideofthestories.com In this episode of Her Side of the Stories, Gillian sits down with Asal Zara and talks about Thomas, the boy he was, and the years that followed. She remembers a son who gave his pocket money to strangers, who once gave away his own quilt to a homeless man, and who stopped in the street to help a man who had collapsed. She talks about the feeling she had before she left that she should not go, the moment her partner told her, and the strange calm of shock that carried her through the first days. She also talks about what came after. Going to see the boy who was driving the car, while he was still in hospital, to tell him she did not blame him. Finding the Spiritualist Church and what it gave back to her. Losing her mother five years later. Writing the book she once went looking for and could not find. In this episode: - Who Thomas was and the small acts of kindness his mother only found out about later - The feeling she had before the holiday that something was wrong - How shock protects you in the first days - Why she went to see the driver and what she said to him - What the Spiritualist Church gave her when nothing else helped - Writing the book she needed to read herself - What she would say to a mother going through the same thing 🔔𝐃𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐮𝐛𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐮𝐩𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬. https://www.youtube.com/@hersideofthestoriesofficial/?sub\_confirmation=1   **🔗** **Stay Connected With Us.** Her Side of the Stories Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hersideofthestories Asal Zara Instagram: http://instagram.com/imasalzara/ Asal Zara LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/asal-zara-aa845766  Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/0NdDte4w6fgcuZZwZH1rpi?si=5u1ARRWURf2ynKa0n3Fe8g  Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/her-side-of-the-stories/id1890695561 Website: http://www.hersideofthestories.com   **📩 For business inquiries:** [hello@hersideofthestories.com](mailto:hello@hersideofthestories.com)  ============================= **🎬Suggested videos for you:** ▶️https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZWxHN2gWP8  ▶️https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqP69EOwXBI  ▶️https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82CEAXcLUwM  ▶️https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCWTm\_8R43c  ▶️https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jFUpLzdtRA  ================================= #womensstories #griefandhealing #motherhood #lifeafterloss #realstories #hersideofthestories Losing My Son and Learning How to Live Again | Gillian Sage A Mother's Story of Losing Her Son and Finding Peace #womensstories #griefandhealing #motherhood