Love & Grief Love comes before grief and love abides in, with and through grief. ~Lori Kayser (To read the previous blog posts in this series, please see Article 1, Article 2, and Article 3) How do we support those in grief? On May 10, 2018, my beautiful bonus daughter died of a drug overdose. She was 31 years old and left a precious nine-year-old daughter behind. The best way I can describe the minutes after that dreaded phone call from my ex-husband is I felt like someone had zip tied my windpipe. No air could pass through. I was breathless. The proverbial wind had been taken out of my sails. Our deepest fears were realized after years and years of treatment, inpatient rehab, therapy, AA/NA meetings, sleepless nights, recovery, relapse and recovery and sadly, in Molly’s case, death. Grief is inherent in the human experience. I also want to acknowledge the universal experience of grief. If [...]