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Emilie Kiser EXCLUSIVE: The Loss That Changed Her Forever
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What Grief Teaches You About Life
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Emilie reckons honestly with the public's need to assign blame after tragedy — noting it's a natural human impulse to seek a logical explanation, and that she can't fully condemn people for it since she might have done the same. At the same time, she is clear that nothing anyone says could hurt her more than she is already hurting herself. The only people whose opinions matter are those who truly know her heart. This section contains some of her most profound reflections: that placing blame is a way of making sense of the senseless, and that grief offers a strange peace in the smallness of what you actually need from others.
Grief professionals taught Emilie that grief from child loss never ends — it simply becomes something you carry alongside every other emotion forever. The 'stages of grief' model was designed for elderly people facing their own death, not for parents who outlive their children.
