Emilie Kiser

I got a phone call from my husband that our son Trick had fallen in the pool and that he wasn't breathing.

Our whole world fell apart.

There is no way to describe to someone what it's like losing a child.

We did not think we would make it through that.

You too.

I'm really grateful to be here.

I appreciate that.

I'm nervous.

I'm honored to be here.

Yeah, I feel okay.

I'm a mom, so my priority day to day is taking care of my younger son, Teddy.

So my day to day is pretty normal.

I wake up, I work out, I try to work out every day just because I know those like good endorphins will help me mentally throughout the day.

And I notice a really big difference if I don't do that.

And then I kind of just spend the rest of my day with my son and just wherever it leads me.

I've learned throughout a lot of my group journey that I just can't have too many expectations for myself.

So I just have to set small intentions and go where the day leads me.

I have a large platform and going through what we've been through this past year, just honestly, nothing has felt like an appropriate place to talk about fully in depth what happened, what our family's been through, just how much we miss Trigg, how much we love him.

It just it honestly hasn't felt right.

And I feel like when you asked me to come, I I really felt like, OK, yeah, this is like a person that I can sit down with and have a really in-depth, meaningful conversation that will hopefully help people spread awareness, help me to maybe heal in a way.