What If Grief Deserved A Full Year Of Care with Kelly Edmondson

About this episode

Kelly Edmondson discusses the ongoing challenges of grief after the loss of her son and the importance of extended care during this difficult time.

Send us Fan Mail The condolences pour in, the flowers fill the room, and then the funeral ends. What happens when the hardest part of grief shows up weeks later, when everyone else has gone back to normal? We sit down with Kelly Edmondson, a trauma ICU and ER nurse turned grief counselor, whose life changed when her 28-year-old son Darius died suddenly from an epilepsy-related seizure. Kelly shares the moment that cracked something open for her: Mother’s Day. She expected darkness, but her f...

People in this episode

Host: Joe Grumbine

Guest: Kelly Edmondson

Topics covered

• grief
• loss
• counseling
• mental health
• parenting
• trauma

Keywords

• grief
• counseling
• loss
• mental health
• trauma
• parenting
• epilepsy

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Organizations: Willow Creek Springs

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