In this episode, we sit down with Rose Cope, LMSW, whose path through education, EMS, and political activism has shaped her into the grounded, compassionate clinician she is today. Rose brings a rare blend of crisis experience, systemic awareness, and heart-centered social work — offering a perspective that feels both deeply human and deeply needed.

Together, we explore:

• How her background in education informs the way she understands people

• What EMS taught her about presence, regulation, and supporting others in crisis

• How political activism shaped her commitment to equity, advocacy, and systemic change

• The realities of being an LMSW in today’s world — the challenges, the purpose, and the heart behind the work

• What she wishes more people understood about healing and human behavior

This conversation is layered, grounding, and filled with insight for anyone who works in mental health, loves someone who struggles, or is trying to understand themselves more deeply.

Not all grief looks the same.

Some people lose a parent to death.

Some lose a parent who’s still alive.

Both losses leave a space that keeps echoing long after the moment it happened.

This episode explores:

• ​the grief that’s public vs. the grief no one talks about
• ​how daughters carry the stories of the men who shaped them
• ​what happens when the person who was supposed to stay… doesn’t
• ​the lifelong ripple of absence — whether chosen, forced, or inevitable

In this episode, we explore:

• ​what it feels like to grieve a parent who’s passed and one that is still alive
• ​how daughters carry the stories of the men who shaped them — whether they were present or absent
• ​the ripple effect of parental loss on identity, safety, trust, and self-worth
• ​the difference between “moving on” and “learning to live with it”
• ​the kind of love that doesn’t disappear, even when the person does