Episode 10 - Is There a Relationship Between Grief and Addiction

Mar 30, 2016

How are grief and addiction similar... how do they differ? I find that even though each may be caused by some difficult experience that we face in life, at least I have the ability to overcome my addiction. I don't think the same can be said for grief.

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Episode 9 - My Grief and My Mother

Mar 23, 2016

My father was my entire world as a child. Wherever he went I wanted to go with him. It seems as if I was always by his side.

Once he died, my mother became the central figure in my life and would instill in me core values that I carry with me to this very day. she would sacrifice all that was important to here to...

Episode 8 - 28 Minutes From Grief

Mar 16, 2016

I have often wondered what would have happened if my mother and I had stayed at my parents store for an additional 15-20 minutes. Would we all be alive, or would we all have perished that night.

It is a question that consumed me for a long time. Eventually, I just had to let it go.

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Episode 7 - High School and Grief

Mar 9, 2016

Even though I had an uncle and my grandfather who would become the male role modes in my life after my father passed, I did not ask them to accompany me to any of the father/son events at my high school. My reasoning was simple... they were not my father.

Grieving the loss of my father - some 4 years after he...

Episode 6 - I Dont Have a Monopoly on Grief

Mar 2, 2016

When I was younger, if I heard people discuss the loss of a loved one I would always think that the somehow they got more time with them than I got with my father, or at least they had time to "prepare" for the loss of their loved one.

I now realize that every loss is significant and hurts regardless of when the person...