Storme Diaries - Amber Bond - Ep.25
Welcome back to Storme Diaries 🤍 For episode 26, I’m joined by Amber Bond for an incredibly raw conversation about childhood, grief, loss, relationships, motherhood, resilience and finding the strength to rebuild your life when everything feels like it’s falling apart. Amber opens up about her childhood, including her parents separating when she was very young and growing up around her mum’s party lifestyle. We talk about her desire to feel accepted by her mum, how partying became part of that search for connection and how our childhood experiences can shape the people we become. We also discuss Huntington’s disease running in her family and one of the most heartbreaking chapters of Amber’s life: losing her mum to suicide when she was just nine months pregnant. Just ten days later, Amber went into labour. While she was giving birth in hospital, her mum was in the morgue of that very same hospital. A moment that should have been filled with the excitement of becoming a mum was also surrounded by unimaginable grief. Amber shares how difficult it was to navigate those first newborn days while grieving her mum, and how she felt she couldn’t fully enjoy that precious stage of motherhood. As an only child, she also had to face so much of the grief and everything that followed on her own. We talk about relationships, too. From experiencing a toxic relationship when she was younger to being thrown out by her mum, living in her car and eventually staying in a hostel, Amber has faced challenges that many people could never imagine. Motherhood brought its own struggles. Amber shares her experience of navigating life when her partner went to prison while their second baby was still young. We discuss solo parenting, the importance of choosing the right father for your children and how the relationships we choose can affect not only us but our children, too. Despite everything she has been through, Amber knows how resilient she is. We talk about what it means to spend years in survival mode, how difficult it can be to move beyond simply getting through each day and finding the strength to build a life on your own terms. Amber also shares how she started her own cleaning business and her journey with singing, showing that even after some of life's darkest moments, there is still room to find your purpose and create new opportunities. ✨ In this episode, we discuss: • Childhood, family dynamics and the need for acceptance • Growing up around her mum’s party lifestyle • Huntington’s disease running in her family • Losing her mum to suicide while nine months pregnant • Going into labour just ten days after her mum’s death • Grieving while navigating the newborn stage • Being an only child and facing grief alone • Toxic relationships and difficult family experiences • Being thrown out, living in her car and staying in a hostel • Solo parenting and her partner going to prison • The importance of choosing the right father for your children • Resilience, survival mode and rebuilding your life • Starting a cleaning business and pursuing singing Amber’s story is a reminder that you never truly know what someone has lived through to become the person they are today. Behind the smiles and everyday routines, there can be years of pain, grief and battles that nobody else knows about. Storme Diaries is all about real people sharing real stories, in the hope that someone listening can relate to something they've heard and feel a little less alone. 🤍 🎧 If you enjoy the episodes, please remember to like, comment and subscribe. It genuinely helps spread the word of Storme Diaries and means these conversations can reach someone who might need to hear them. Thank you for being here and supporting this journey. 🫶🏻 #StormeDiaries #AmberBond #RealStories #Motherhood #Grief #SuicideBereavement #ChildhoodTrauma #SoloParenting #Resilience #SurvivalMode #WomenSupportingWomen #PodcastUK