Episode 56 ~ Grief Doesn’t Play Fair: Mon Trice Williams On Healing Beyond Survival Mode

Female Voices: Life and Loss · Jan 29, 2026 · 38m

What happens when grief arrives all at once—and refuses to follow the rules?

In this deeply moving episode of Female Voices: Life & Loss, host Teresa Reiniger sits down with Mon Trice Williams (aka Poet Emma Dree)—a widow, mother, poet, author, and curator of healing spaces—who shares how losing her mother, husband, and five other family members within single year reshaped everything she thought she knew about grief, self-care, and resilience.

Rather than trying to “fix” her grief, Mon Trice learned to listen to it—and what emerged was a powerful philosophy: self-care isn’t a one-time rescue…