Episode 42: Grief Part III: Mom & Aunt Sandra: Grief Partners

In this deeply personal third installment of Kyle’s exploration of grief, and specifically the grief of losing his father, he sits down with two people who know a whole lot about losing loved ones, his mother Wanda, and her sister, Sandra. Wanda and Sandra, along with their brother, Danny, lost their mother to cancer when they were in their late teens and early twenties. Sandra lost her firstborn son in a car crash when he was 18. They also lost a sister as children. In this episode, they talk about the importance of having a grief partner, someone who can be there with you to be your support person to lean on during the darkest days. They also find themselves speaking freely about things that they haven’t quite worked through that occurred at the last family funeral almost ten years ago.