160: Ashley Smith’s Story | Sibling Dynamics, Nontraditional Gender Roles, + Not Knowing What to Grieve
After Ashley Smith’s son Deacon was admitted to the NICU, and one thing after another cascaded out of control with his care, she found herself literally screaming in the nursery “THIS IS NOT MY PLAN!”
While not all of us have screamed this out loud, so many of us have had a similar breaking point, where the weight of fear and grief and lost expectations bear down on us. In this episode, Ashley shares what it was like to navigate this complex grieving process in her own family after her son was diagnosed with a rare syndrome.
She shares what her family grieves the most (and…
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