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Katie Rizzo: The Trimesters of Grief—Finding Hope After Losing a Child to Addiction
Katie Rizzo is an author, educator, and "accidental poet" with a master's from Yale University and postgraduate medical studies from the University of Colorado School of Medicine . She taught high school biology and anatomy for over fifteen years . Her life was upended on September 17, 2024, when her firstborn son Nicholas died from an accidental overdose involving oxycodone and Xanax after years of struggling with addiction .
In the aftermath, she began journaling and, eventually, writing poetry—something she had never done before . She describes grief as a process that mirrors pregnancy: a…
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