Graduation Season: Behind the Curtain

When you picture a high school graduation, you probably see the cap and gown, the walk across the stage, the backyard party. That's one version. This episode is about what's actually going on underneath it for a lot of parents — the grief sitting next to the pride, the disorientation nobody warned you about, the strange feeling of being unmoored even when everything is technically fine.

Graduation season is complicated in ways that don't fit in a congratulations card. And you deserve to know you're not alone in that.

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