Animal therapy used at care farm within 2 weeks
Within 2 weeks of losing Trigg, Emilie attended a grief care farm using animal therapy and licensed professionals to begin processing the loss.
Snapshot · On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Emilie Kiser EXCLUSIVE: The Loss That Changed Her Forever
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Jun 17, 2026
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Surviving Grief Day by Day
At 37:47 · chapter starts 36:00
Jay asks what a good day and a bad day look like now. Emilie resists the binary: every day is hard without Trigg. Instead, she describes grief as operating on two independent scales — intensity of feeling versus capacity to manage. If grief is an 8 but management is a 10, that is a decent day. If she can't get through her tasks because grief is overwhelming and management is low, that is a harder day. But even within the hardest days, her younger son Teddy brings genuine moments of joy — and that coexistence is the reality, not a contradiction. This framework is one of the episode's most practically useful insights.
The Care Farm: Animal Therapy for Bereaved Parents
Within 2 weeks of losing Trigg, Emilie's family got her to Dr. Joanne Cacciatori's grief care farm — a place for bereaved parents that uses animal therapy alongside licensed professionals. The goal isn't to heal you. Nothing can. It's to give you tools to coexist with pain that never leaves.
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