This one's different.

This week, Jess's mom pulls up a chair and what unfolds is the kind of conversation that doesn't happen at the dinner table. It happens when you're finally ready (if that is even a true statement), but when you're old enough to look back, and brave enough to look at each other.

We all grew up in families that held hard things in different ways. Some of us learned silence. Some of us learned hustle. Some of us learned that love looks like showing up even when you didn't have the words, and honestly, neither did they.

This episode is a real-time reckoning ... not to point fingers, but to finally see each other clearly. To name what shaped us. To honor what was survived. And to ask the question that might be the most courageous of all: What did you need that you never got to ask for?

Whether you've lost a parent, are navigating a complicated relationship with one, or are raising kids while still healing yourself, this one's going to land somewhere tender. It only skims the surface of what some of search for meaning in our upbringing. We hope it helps you feel a little less alone in your own story.

This is GetGritty. And today, it got really real.

GetGritty explores the challenges and struggles that make us adaptable humans and find meaning moving forward.

Jaz Chahal is the Founder of Mindset Evolution
Jessica Porté is a Consultant and Grief Educator with Wayfinder Family Co.