Following those soft instincts, Judd has made her way to the Walgreens greeting card aisle, where she will pause, peruse the cards addressed to her daughters, and select the one her mother, singer and songwriter Naomi Judd, would have selected.
“I did that for Christmas, you know. During my birthday, I do it. And I choose the one that I would have given her for the holidays,” Judd reminisced in a recent interview for his podcast “All There Is” with Anderson Cooper.
In the more than 20 months since her mother’s suicide at the age of 76 in 2022, Judd has undertaken a great deal of healing work.
There is a location where transcendence, grief, and trauma converge.