When the Life You Planned Falls Apart — How to Build Something True Instead

The Advisor with Stacey Chillemi · Dec 12, 2025 · 32m

You had a picture of how it was supposed to go. The relationship, the family, the version of motherhood that looked a certain way in your mind. And life handed you something completely different — and now you are standing in the gap between the story you were given and the one you are actually living. Cheri Bergeron works specifically with the grief and resilience that lives inside that gap — the painful fairytales we absorb about love and family that were never actually written for us, and the compassionate process of releasing them without losing hope for what is still possible. What she…