A stranger told us we looked “too happy” to be grieving our son, and that offhand comment cracked open a much bigger conversation: who decides what grief should look like, and why do we treat joy as betrayal after loss? We open the door to our real process—private tears, unexpected waves, quiet days, and the slow return to things that make us feel alive. We talk about parenting four kids while holding absence, choosing fewer commitments to protect our energy, then carefully rebuilding a life...
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A stranger told us we looked “too happy” to be grieving our son, and that offhand comment cracked open a much bigger conversation: who decides what grief should look like, and why do we treat joy as betrayal after loss? We open the door to our real process—private tears, unexpected waves, quiet days, and the slow return to things that make us feel alive. We talk about parenting four kids while holding absence, choosing fewer commitments to protect our energy, then carefully rebuilding a life...
Story time: Finding out about My Biological Family
Jessyl and Alex Podcast
39 minutes
3 weeks ago
Story time: Finding out about My Biological Family
What if a casual question on a deployment cracked open your origin story? We share the intimate, winding path from a rumor Alex heard as a kid to a blood-type clue in Afghanistan, a Facebook search that found a face with the same bones, and an Easter gathering where a single sentence redrew a family map. It’s a story about hard truths arriving late, the kind of love that stays even when it’s hurt, and the shock of meeting a brother who moves like you, jokes like you, and looks like your futur...
Jessyl and Alex Podcast
A stranger told us we looked “too happy” to be grieving our son, and that offhand comment cracked open a much bigger conversation: who decides what grief should look like, and why do we treat joy as betrayal after loss? We open the door to our real process—private tears, unexpected waves, quiet days, and the slow return to things that make us feel alive. We talk about parenting four kids while holding absence, choosing fewer commitments to protect our energy, then carefully rebuilding a life...
