Emilie Kiser

The pain is going to end.

We look at grief as this finish line.

I feel like for a lot of people of I grieved for this amount of time or I was sad for this amount of time.

And then that's not how it works.

It's it's never ending.

Your grief is going to be with you for the rest of your life.

And very early on, we had so many amazing health professionals that helped us because we

we would not have even gotten to the mental place we are in now without those people.

And I feel like even though it was such a weight to hear at that time of this is never going to go away, like we're going through the darkest thing we could ever possibly go through.

We just lost our child.

He's never coming back.

And to hear that you're going to feel this forever was, it feels impossible.

You're like,

okay, so it's never going to get better.

I'm never going to feel.

But that's when the other lessons come in of everything is going to coexist with the grief.

You could feel joy and feel so much sadness at the exact same time.

You can feel support while also feeling guilty.

You can feel

while also feeling reminiscent on the memories.