Episode 346: Life Grows Around It - Graham's Mom

Losing a Child: Always Andy's Mom · Apr 30, 2026 · 40m

Grief is permanent. But it doesn't have to be all-consuming.

That is the quiet, hard-won truth at the heart of this conversation with Wesley, Graham's mom. And it is the kind of truth that only comes from ten years of living with loss.

Graham was adopted at five months old, a boy who struggled from early on with questions of identity and belonging. He wrestled with being adopted, with his sexuality, with depression, and eventually with addiction. Wesley spent years in that particular kind of anticipatory grief that parents of children with addiction know all too well, always bracing, always…