When your life has revolved around caring for your medically complex child, their absence changes everything: your routines, your identity, your relationships, and evenyour purpose in life.

In this tender conversation, Stephanie Stanley shares what it’s like to live through end of life decisions for your medically complex child and to continue on after the caregiving ends. We cover the isolation that follows, the way grief changed her relationships and community, and the small ways she’s keeping Payton close.

She also opens up about the support that helped her most, her advice for those walking alongside grieving parents, and what she wishes others understood about the grievingprocess after child loss.

Just a note: this episode covers themes of grief,child loss, end of life decisions, and more. Please listen with care.

If you have lost a child, may face child loss in the future, or simply care for someone who has been in a similar position, this is an episode you can’t miss.

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Listen to Ep 152: Stephanie’s Story.

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