About this episode
Jimmy Nichols shares his profound experience of losing two daughters to stillbirth and the emotional journey that followed.
Jimmy Nichols lost two daughters to late-term stillbirth within a year. Zoe, in April 2016. Hope, seven months later. No medical explanation. Just the emptiness of arriving at a baby class on a Tuesday night, going home, going to the hospital, and finding out the world had changed. He is not a man who raises his voice or holds grudges. He will tell you that. He will also tell you about the anger that scared him, the lunch breaks crying in his car, and the drinking that seemed to work until it didn’t. And he will tell you about the day it was raining for the third straight day on a Georgia section of the AT, and he went down to a spring in a gully, and two cardinals landed on a rock in the middle of a thunderstorm. Dark Miles is a narrative documentary series from Hiker Trash Radio.
People in this episode
Hosts: Doc, Bleav
Guest: Jimmy Nichols
Topics covered
- grief
- parenting
- loss
- nature
- mental health
- storytelling
Keywords
- stillbirth
- grief
- cardinals
- Appalachian Trail
- mental health
- storytelling
- loss
- parenting
Mentioned in this episode
Books & works: Dark Miles
Places: Georgia
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