Episode 359: A Season of Tears - Sebastian's Mom

Losing a Child: Always Andy's Mom · Jul 30, 2026 · 1h

Jackie knew it was coming.

That is one of the hardest things about this kind of grief. For years, she had watched her son Sebastian struggle with mental health and addiction, and there came a point, as she puts it, where it was no longer an if but a when. She braced herself. She prepared. She thought maybe that would soften the blow.

It did not.

Sebastian was Jackie's firstborn, a towheaded, blue-eyed dynamo who walked at ten months old and never really stopped moving. He was curious about everything, passionate about soccer, and a national chess champion not once but twice before he decided…