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Katie Rizzo: Losing Her Son to Addiction and Learning to Live With Grief
In this deeply moving episode of Adversity to Strength, Katie Rizzo shares the devastating experience of losing her son, Nicholas, to addiction and the journey of grief that followed.
Katie speaks openly about the early warning signs, the impact addiction had on her family, the challenges of treatment and rehabilitation, and the guilt, shame and helplessness many families experience when someone they love is struggling with substance use.
She also explains her powerful way of understanding grief by comparing it to pregnancy: the shock and physical symptoms at the beginning, the numbness that…
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