409: What if your child’s death opened up your life’s purpose?
About this episode
Kristin Song shares her journey of turning grief from her child's death into a mission to protect other children from gun violence.
After building the loving family she always wanted, a woman loses her youngest son to an unsecured gun, and turns her grief into a fight to protect other children. Today’s episode featured Kristin Song. Kristin Miller Song is a writer and speaker whose work examines what it means to live through a profound before-and-after moment, and how a life is reshaped when certainty disappears. Her writing centers on loss, endurance, family, and moral reckoning, and is grounded in lived experience rather than instruction or argument. She has a memoir coming out next year. You can email Kristin at kristins1021@gmail.com. Kristin is on Substack @KristinMillerSong1, on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/kristin.song.58 On LinkedIn @Kristin Song Kristin’s website where you can learn more about Ethan’s law and donate: https://songstrong.org/ Producers: Whit Missildine, Andrew Waits, Sara Marinelli Content/Trigger Warnings: child death, gun violence, death by gunshot, unsecured firearms, traumatic grief, loss of a child, descriptions of a child’s fatal injury, parental guilt, suicidal ideation/depression, cancer and death of a parent, alcoholism, infidelity…
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