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Episode 326: Grief as a Dance - Not a Journey - Drew's Momma
Today's conversation with Drew's Momma, Melissa, is one that lingers long after the episode ends. She lost her vibrant, adventurous son Drew twenty-five years ago, and in the decades since, she has come to understand her relationship with grief in a way that feels both gentle and profoundly true.
She says grief has not been a journey for her.
Not something linear.
Not something with a clear beginning or an end.
Instead, grief has become a dance.
A dance that ebbs and flows.
A dance with rhythms she didn't recognize at first.
A dance that asks us to draw close, then step back, then learn to…
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