Once Upon a Feeling

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Once Upon A Feeling is a storytelling and parenting podcast that honors children’s emotions and the complexity of caregiving. Through thoughtful conversations and developmentally informed insights, it helps parents create emotional space—so guidance comes from presence, not pressure.

  1. Episode 21

    Season 2 is Here!

    Season 2 of Once Upon a Feeling is here. After three months away — with family, with friends, with strangers who didn't stay strangers — Rita comes back with the question that shaped her summer and now shapes the season: what does it actually mean to connect? With ourselves. With each other. With our parents. With our children. It's a question that feels especially loud right now, in the middle of every conversation about technology and what it's taking from us. But connection isn't new and it isn't a trend. It's how humans have always worked: through community, through each other, with each other. This short intro sets up the season ahead. New conversations start now. Have a topic you want explored? Leave a comment, or write to rita@gooshi.world. 🎧 Subscribe so you don't miss an episode  💛 Gooshi stories & app → gooshi.world #onceuponafeeling #season2 #connection #consciousparenting #community Send us Fan Mail You can explore Gooshi's ecosystem here: https://linktr.ee/gooshi_world

  2. Episode 22

    Grief Is Love After Loss: Talking to Kids About Death, Change & Legacy with Mindy Brodsky, LCSW

    Season 2 of Once Upon a Feeling is about connection — and it opens with the place where connection shows its truest shape: loss. Rita sits down with Mindy Brodsky, a licensed clinical social worker who works in grief, death and non-death loss, and legacy writing. The conversation starts at a memorial for a friend's husband, gone at 52, and the realization that we spend our lives planning a future we forget to inhabit. From there it opens into the questions most of us were raised to avoid: How do you tell a child the truth about death without sending them into overdrive? Why do kids grieve, play, and grieve again — and why is that healthier than the way adults do it? What does it mean for grief to be witnessed, and why can strangers sometimes hold it better than family? Mindy introduces ring theory, the practice of the compassionate witness, and the tradition of ethical wills — letters that pass down what matters most, written while you're well. Rita brings the Milan cathedral, six hundred years in the making, and the idea that a legacy is something you build knowing you won't see it finished. Somewhere in the middle, Mindy mentions a line from a Gooshi story she read with her six-year-old — "What do you think would help your heart?" — and reveals she now uses it with grieving adults. In this episode: Why "tell the truth" is the first rule for talking to kids about deathThe small losses we never name: a friend moves, summer ends, your baby turns 12Kids as puddle jumpers, and the "should" that keeps adults from doing the sameRing theory and how to show up without making it about youLegacy letters, ethical wills, and living fully now — not when the finish line appearsMindy's six-week grief book club begins October 19; details at mindybrodsky.com. Gooshi stories and the app at gooshi.world. Everything else at linktr.ee/gooshi_world. Send us Fan Mail You can explore Gooshi's ecosystem here: https://linktr.ee/gooshi_world

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Once Upon A Feeling is a storytelling and parenting podcast that honors children’s emotions and the complexity of caregiving. Through thoughtful conversations and developmentally informed insights, it helps parents create emotional space—so guidance comes from presence, not pressure.

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  • Creator
    Gooshi
  • Episodes
    22
  • Seasons
    2
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2026 Once Upon a Feeling
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    Once Upon a Feeling