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Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?

Jason MacKenzie:Healing After Unimaginable Loss

25 May 2025

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What is Jason McKenzie’s journey with grief?

870.447 - 884.482 Tony Mantor

Well, everyone grieves differently, and there is no right or wrong way. It's just how you deal with it, and then, of course, how you deal with it as a family so that you can move forward in life.

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885.423 - 885.563 Jason McKenzie

Yeah.

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886.138 - 891.501 Tony Mantor

That's right. So now I think you said she's going to college. Is that correct?

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892.061 - 893.902 Jason McKenzie

Yeah, she's in her first year of college.

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894.202 - 902.966 Tony Mantor

So with the pressure that comes with the first year of college, then you add the pressure that she's going through because of the loss of her sister. How is she handling that?

902.986 - 917.473 Jason McKenzie

I think she's doing all right. Yeah, I mean, she took a year off of college because there's no way she could have gone back like last year. Like, no way. But yeah, she's doing okay. Like pretty normal college experience, I think.

918.173 - 937.983 Tony Mantor

So now that you've gone through some of the healing that you've processed, what are your plans now moving forward? Do you have any particular ones etched in stone? So what's going through your mind in deciphering what you need to do so that you can move forward in life?

939.275 - 953.941 Jason McKenzie

Oh, I haven't come to grips with it. I mean, I don't know how one can... I don't know if I would frame it like that. I mean, I think it's that I'm moving through the experience with as much intention and purpose as I can. But having said that, in this really bizarre way, my...

955.339 - 974.944 Jason McKenzie

The experience of losing my wife and the aftermath of that, like I was saying, set my life on a very different path, which actually led to me developing a whole hell of a lot of tools, you know, skills, like a network of people around me, a vocabulary to talk about and navigate this in a way different way than I did with my wife, for sure. So it's not that the...

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