What your grieving loved one wishes you knew | Nonny Maphoka Mbathane

Soul Salon with Ayandastood · Sep 1, 2026 · 9m · transcript

Nonny Maphoka Mbathane is a soul who knows grief as a lifelong companion, and who has learned to channel that pain into care, artistry, and language that holds what so many of us cannot yet name.

Nonny shares a sacred grief ritual from her culture and talks to what it felt like to lose both parents at a young age. She reflects on parenting herself in a world that moved on without pausing to ask if she was okay. The isolation, the fear, and the ways that grief becomes not just about death but about all the versions of ourselves and our lives that we have to let go of in order to grow.

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