Two Moms with Two Dead Kids: When Your Child Dies From a Drug Overdose

Mar 04 2025 45 ep. 26 mins 1
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Join two moms who talk about what it's like when your child dies from a drug overdose, and what life is like after a drug overdose death. 

Warning: Conversations may contain triggering material, dark and irreverent humor, and possible cursing. 

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Finding Meaning

Mar 04 2025 25 mins  
What now, after a loss like this? How do we find purpose and meaning in our everyday lives? We need that connection - to be seen and heard.

Revisiting Early Grief

Feb 25 2025 20 mins  
Sometimes we find ourselves revisiting the early days of grief. What do we remember about those early days? How far have we come from there? What are the things that trigger those memories? We discuss.

Losses and Gains

Feb 18 2025 22 mins  
In addition to our children, what else have we lost in the aftermath of their deaths? Have we gained anything? Does hope have anywhere to land in our lives after this?

Chalk It Up To Grief (or stress, anxiety, worry, fear....)

Feb 10 2025 24 mins  
Both DeAnne and Astrid experienced physical changes they chalked up to grief. In early grief especially, it can be hard to differentiate between the changes we go through. Is it grief or something else? We change in other ways, too. DeAnne brings up empathy - how we have changed in response to others. Turns out we don't look at people in the same way, now. We allow others more lati

Finding Community

Feb 04 2025 21 mins  
How do you find your people? Are there people out there like us and like you? We KNOW there are. How do we find them?

Food, Grief, and Healing

Jan 27 2025 21 mins  
In this episode, DeAnne and Astrid discuss food and grief. What associations do we have between our children who are gone and any foods they might have loved? Do we still make those things? The conversation segues into a discussion about the things we stop doing because we associate them so strongly with our dead children.

Taking a Break From Grief

Jan 21 2025 33 mins  
Sometimes we need to take a break from the work of grief. When your child dies from a drug overdose, the work can be endless. In the end, the timing of our work is our own, the pace is our own. We do what we can, when we can.

A Chance Encounter

Jan 13 2025 25 mins  
A chance encounter can rock your world. Astrid talks about a recent encounter she had at the grocery store with the mother of the girl her son loved.

What's In a Name? Introducing: Prolonged Grief Disorder

Jan 07 2025 29 mins  
After a few minutes of the last dregs of Christmas talk, Astrid and DeAnne discuss the fact that what has been known to us as Complicated Grief has undergone a name change to Prolonged Grief Disorder. Are we disordered? When your child dies from a drug overdose, that grief is complicated. There's no way it CAN'T be complicated. But is it a disorder? We discuss.

A Post Holiday Review

Dec 30 2024 22 mins  
Each holiday season will be different. This year, both of us experienced Christmas differently than we had before. It was "better," a shift had occurred, and at the same time letting go of loss is hard.