Beyond Loss: Learning to Live Alongside Grief

Grief doesn’t always arrive as one overwhelming moment. Sometimes it unfolds quietly, changing the way we think, feel, and experience ourselves while teaching us how to carry what remains. In this episode of Elsplend Realities, Katie Rizzo shares her deeply personal journey of losing her firstborn son to addiction and discovering an unexpected way to understand grief through the metaphor of pregnancy and its trimesters. Through poetry and her memoir The Trimesters of Grief, Katie explores the stages of loss, the weight of stigma, the healing power of expression, and what it means to make space for grief without trying to rush past it. This is a tender conversation about learning to feel, remember, and walk alongside grief in your own time.